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1 | fastforward handles qmail forwarding according to a cdb database. It can |
2 | create forwarding databases from a sendmail-style /etc/aliases or from | |
3 | user-oriented virtual-domain tables. | |
4 | ||
5 | fastforward supports external mailing lists, stored in a binary format | |
6 | for fast access. It has a tool to convert sendmail-style include files | |
7 | into binary lists. | |
8 | ||
9 | fastforward is more reliable than sendmail. sendmail can't deal with | |
10 | long aliases, or deeply nested aliases, or deeply nested include files; | |
11 | fastforward has no limits other than memory. sendmail can produce | |
12 | corrupted alias files if the system crashes; fastforward is crashproof. | |
13 | ||
14 | fastforward's database-building tools are much faster than sendmail's | |
15 | newaliases. Even better, fastforward deliveries don't pause while the | |
16 | database is being rebuilt. | |
17 | ||
18 | fastforward does not support insecure sendmail-style program deliveries | |
19 | from include files; you can use qmail's secure built-in mechanisms | |
20 | instead. fastforward does support program deliveries from /etc/aliases. |