Index_D

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D

daemons, checking, 79–80

daemontools, See also multilog

basics, 432

defined, 37

quick-start installation, 43–45

step-by-step installation, 64–66

datatypes control file, 97–98

Date fields, troubleshooting, 214

datemail utility, 150–151

Davis, Christopher K., and DNS patches, 252

defaultdelivery values, mailbox formats and locations and, 68

defaultdomain control file, 99

deferral notices gotcha, 467

Delivered-To field, and troubleshooting, 211–212

delivery

conditional, 141

distributing, 399–400

dot-qmail delivery types listed, 136

error handling, 139–140

forward delivery, 138–139

local delivery options, 15

maildir delivery, 138

mbox delivery, 137

migrating to home directory delivery, 241–242

multiple deliveries, 139–141

qmail-send log messages of, 203–206

program delivery, 137

qmail-send and, 426

Sendmail-style delivery, 240–241

simple mailing lists and, 296

single-recipient vs. multiple-recipient, 391–394

unsuccessful, 204–206, 218, 220–222

diagnostic tools for queues, 188–191

dial-up client configuration, 230–233

directories, See also subdirectories

/var/qmail listed, 17

creating at installation, 59

home directories

migrating to home directory delivery, 241–242

moving mailboxes to, 243–244

installation directory comparison for qmail+patches vs. tarball, 90

master

creating, 40

in /var/qmail, 33

disadvantages

of modular approach, 16

of qmail, 9

disk I/O tuning, 281

disk interfaces, and tuning disk I/O, 281

distances, and MX records, 226

djbdns server package

basics, 432–433

dnscache and, 251–252

DNS

blacklists, 289–290

directing mail to virtual domains and, 380, 386

DNS caching, and tuning networks, 284

DNS lookups and SMTP slowness gotcha, 467

DNS patches, 251–252

dnscache, and djbdns, 251–252

doc /var/qmail directory, 17

documentation, 20–23

documents installed under /var/qmail/doc, 21

domain (host), setting in messages, 128–129

domain mailboxes, and Fetchmail, 370

domains, and routing by, 14

doqueue function in qmailctl, 162

dot (.)

in extension addresses gotcha, 466

dot-forward package, 237–239, 433

dot-qmail files, 136

dot-qmail utilities, 148–156

bouncesaying, 148–149

condredirect, 150

except, 151

forward, 152

preline, 155

qreceipt, 155–156

doublebouncehost control file, 100

doublebounceto control file, 100

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