Source: ezmlm
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Manvendra Bhangui <ezmlm@indimail.org>
Standards-Version: 4.1.2
Homepage: http://indimail.sourceforge.net
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), libqmail-dev

Package: ezmlm
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Pre-Depends: indimail-mta (>= 2.0 )
Conflicts: ezmlm-idx
Description: Easy Mailing List Manager for qmail
 .
 ezmlm lets users set up their own mailing lists within qmail's address
 hierarchy. A user, Joe, types
 .
  ezmlm-make ~/SOS ~/.qmail-sos joe-sos isp.net
 .
 and instantly has a functioning mailing list, joe-sos@isp.net, with all
 relevant information stored in a new ~/SOS directory.
 .
 ezmlm sets up joe-sos-subscribe and joe-sos-unsubscribe for automatic
 processing of subscription and unsubscription requests. Any message to
 joe-sos-subscribe will work; Joe doesn't have to explain any tricky
 command formats. ezmlm will send back instructions if a subscriber sends
 a message to joe-sos-request or joe-sos-help.
 .
 ezmlm automatically archives new messages. Messages are labelled with
 sequence numbers; a subscriber can fetch message 123 by sending mail to
 joe-sos-get.123. The archive format supports fast message retrieval even
 when there are thousands of messages.
 .
 ezmlm takes advantage of qmail's VERPs to reliably determine the
 recipient address and message number for every incoming bounce message.
 It waits ten days and then sends the subscriber a list of message
 numbers that bounced. If that warning bounces, ezmlm sends a probe; if
 the probe bounces, ezmlm automatically removes the subscriber from the
 mailing list.
 .
 ezmlm is easy for users to control. Joe can edit ~/SOS/text/* to change
 any of the administrative messages sent to subscribers. He can remove
 ~/SOS/public and ~/SOS/archived to disable automatic subscription and
 archiving. He can put his own address into ~/SOS/editor to set up a
 moderated mailing list. He can edit ~/SOS/{headeradd,headerremove} to
 control outgoing headers. ezmlm has several utilities to manually
 inspect and manage mailing lists.
 .
 ezmlm uses Delivered-To to stop forwarding loops, Mailing-List to
 protect other mailing lists against false subscription requests, and
 real cryptographic cookies to protect normal users against false
 subscription requests. ezmlm can also be used for a sublist,
 redistributing messages from another list.
 .
 ezmlm is reliable, even in the face of system crashes. It writes each
 new subscription and each new message safely to disk before it reports
 success to qmail.
 .
 ezmlm doesn't mind huge mailing lists. Lists don't even have to fit into
 memory. ezmlm hashes the subscription list into a set of independent
 files so that it can handle subscription requests quickly. ezmlm uses
 qmail for blazingly fast parallel SMTP deliveries.

