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Debianization, and minor fixes.
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1fastforward handles qmail forwarding according to a cdb database. It can
2create forwarding databases from a sendmail-style /etc/aliases or from
3user-oriented virtual-domain tables.
4
5fastforward supports external mailing lists, stored in a binary format
6for fast access. It has a tool to convert sendmail-style include files
7into binary lists.
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9fastforward is more reliable than sendmail. sendmail can't deal with
10long aliases, or deeply nested aliases, or deeply nested include files;
11fastforward has no limits other than memory. sendmail can produce
12corrupted alias files if the system crashes; fastforward is crashproof.
13
14fastforward's database-building tools are much faster than sendmail's
15newaliases. Even better, fastforward deliveries don't pause while the
16database is being rebuilt.
17
18fastforward does not support insecure sendmail-style program deliveries
19from include files; you can use qmail's secure built-in mechanisms
20instead. fastforward does support program deliveries from /etc/aliases.