Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be distributed in source form, or binary for by approval. This package has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary package for themselves, from source.

To build a binary deb package, first install the qmail-src package, then type the command “build-qmail”. If you try “apt-get source –build qmail-src” it will most likely fail because the users do not exist. You MUST install the qmail-src package first. Also be sure to build and install ucspi-tcp before installing the binary qmail package. Install the ucspi-tcp-src package to get ucspi-tcp.

The resulting binary packages are not suitable for re-distribution.