qmail
E224027
qmail is a secure, high-performance mail transfer agent for Unix-like systems, designed as an alternative to Sendmail with a strong focus on reliability and security.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Postfix | 2 |
| qmail canonical | 2 |
| Sendmail | 1 |
| netqmail | 1 |
| qmail-clean | 1 |
| qmail-inject | 1 |
| qmail-local | 1 |
| qmail-lspawn | 1 |
| qmail-remote | 1 |
| qmail-rspawn | 1 |
| qmail-send | 1 |
| qmail-smtpd | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unix software
ⓘ
free software ⓘ mail transfer agent ⓘ software ⓘ |
| alternativeTo |
qmail
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sendmail
|
| component |
qmail
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-clean
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-inject
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-local
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-lspawn
qmail-queue ⓘ qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-remote
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-rspawn
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-send
qmail self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
qmail-smtpd
|
| configurationFile |
/var/qmail/control
ⓘ
/var/qmail/control/locals ⓘ /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ⓘ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains ⓘ |
| designGoal |
ease of configuration
ⓘ
high performance ⓘ modularity ⓘ robustness ⓘ secure mail transfer ⓘ |
| developer |
Daniel J. Bernstein
ⓘ
surface form:
D. J. Bernstein
Daniel J. Bernstein ⓘ |
| distribution |
qmail
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
netqmail
|
| focus |
performance
ⓘ
reliability ⓘ security ⓘ |
| homepage | https://cr.yp.to/qmail.html ⓘ |
| influenced |
Courier MTA
ⓘ
Postfix ⓘ |
| license | public domain ⓘ |
| mailQueueDirectory | /var/qmail/queue ⓘ |
| notableProperty |
no known remote root exploits in default installation for many years
ⓘ
small, auditable code base ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Solaris operating system ⓘ
surface form:
Solaris
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| securityModel |
least privilege
ⓘ
modular components with separate UIDs ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
aliasing
ⓘ
bounce handling ⓘ mailing lists ⓘ queue management ⓘ virtual domains ⓘ |
| supportsMailboxFormat |
Maildir
ⓘ
mbox ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol | SMTP ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: qmail Description of subject: qmail is a secure, high-performance mail transfer agent for Unix-like systems, designed as an alternative to Sendmail with a strong focus on reliability and security.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Postfix
this entity surface form:
Postfix
this entity surface form:
Sendmail
this entity surface form:
netqmail