what is qmail?

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what is qmail?

Answer 1

qmail is a mail transfer agent that runs on Unix. It was written by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure replacement for the popular Sendmail program. The author offered a $500 prize for the first person to publish a verifiable security hole in the latest version of the software. Despite a handful of minor bugs, there has been only one possible contender for the prize, a potential remote root exploit, only theoretically reproducable using machines with over 8GB of memory on a 64 bit architecture.



Qmail encourages the use of several innovations in mail (some originated by Bernstein, others not), including maildir format mailboxes for storing messages (mbox files are also supported, and encouragement to migrate is given along with a tool to convert mbox mailboxes to maildir mailboxes) and the QMTP and QMQP protocols.



Qmail's major competitors are Exim and Postfix. Unlike qmail's competitors, qmail has not been updated by the author for several years and users have instead come to rely on third party patches to support new functionality.

Answer 2

There are two possibilities. Either it's "qmail" or "gmail."

1] qmail:-

qmail is a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete, written by Dan Bernstein, who also has a web page for qmail. qmail is a secure package. You can download netqmail 1.05 (Redhat RPMs, and Debian .debs, HP-UX, Gentoo, and OpenBSD ports) and redistribute qmail for free. You can get the "big picture" of how qmail is organized. You should read Life with qmail

A number of large Internet sites are using qmail: USA.net's outgoing email, Address.com, Rediffmail.com, Colonize.com, Yahoo! mail, Network Solutions, Verio, MessageLabs (searching 100M emails/week for malware), listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (a big listserv hub, using qmail since 1996), Ohio State (biggest US University), Yahoo! Groups, Listbot, USWest.net (Western US ISP), Telenordia, gmx.de (German ISP), NetZero (free ISP), Critical Path (email outsourcing service w/ 15M mailboxes), PayPal/Confinity, Hypermart.net, Casema, Pair Networks, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, Mycom.com, and vuurwerk.nl.



Charles Cazabon, Dave Sill, Henning Brauer, Peter Samuel, and Russell Nelson have put together a netqmail-1.05 distribution of qmail. It is comprised of qmail-1.03 plus the recommended patches, some documentation, and a shell script which prepares the files for compilation.



2]gmail:-

gmail is email service provider which is given by the moderators of google.

However gmail is in progress and we are usin g it's beta version but soon after the completion of gmail we'll get final version of gmail.

Hope that you will understand.

Answer 3

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qmail is a mail transfer agent that runs on Unix. It was written by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure replacement for the popular Sendmail program. Only two minor bugs have been found in qmail since version 1.0, and there is an as yet unclaimed $500 prize for the first person to publish a verifiable security hole in the latest version of the software.

Answer 4

Gmail is a free webmail and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface. It is known as Google Mail in the United Kingdom and Germany. Its competitors include AIM Mail, Windows Live Mail (aka MSN Hotmail), and Yahoo! Mail.



Initially released on April 1, 2004, Gmail was almost immediately successful in reaching a wide range of users, quickly evolving in response to suggestions and criticisms. Two years later, Gmail is still in "beta", meaning that access to the service is restricted to those who had received an invitation from an existing account holder, from Blogger, or through their mobile phone.

Answer 5

i have never heard of qmail but gmail is a great email service for email you have have all your accounts email sent to it. It has 2000mb of space so you never have to delete again. You can only get in by invite if you need one go to



http://amityvilleobsession.hyperboards.com/index.php



and make a post in the general discussion and youll get an invite... 4 memebers there have invites.

Answer 6

its not qmail its gmail much more advanced then any ather mail service. in it u can even chat with ur friend if they r online within the same page of mail. u can get it by going to gmail.com or google.com. if u still cant get mail me at [e-mail] to invite u for gmail byeee

Answer 7

What Is Qmail

Answer 8

It's a email program just like yahoo and msn, But it is made by google. You have to be "invited" to it, you cannot just get it yourself. Google has quite a bit of cool stuff . Ever looking for a picture editing tool I suggest picasa made by google.. it's awesome.

Answer 9

i think you mean Gmail.



it's Google Mail (like Yahoo Mail)

Answer 10

um... i dunno what qmail is...but maybe you meant "gmail", in that case, its email from google, its supposed to be good, and you can only get it if your invited by someone else

Answer 11

You have a email in Yahoo.com but Gmail means you have a email in google.com