How to Install and Uninstall fastforward Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "fastforward" package

This is a short guide on how to install fastforward on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fastforward
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fastforward" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall fastforward on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fastforward
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fastforward package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fastforward
Priority: extra
Section: universe/mail
Installed-Size: 219
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Gerrit Pape
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.51-3ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: qmail (>> 1.06)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fastforward/fastforward_0.51-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 46820
MD5sum: cbf8951644f5778a7dff5373e78ff99b
SHA1: c4a5bb995c541301da145207c3ad1fa9f5044e65
SHA256: aed91c3e6dea3d6c5ad88e2b54a6905ebb23751664d6d18da170bc7f4789d01a
Description-en: handles qmail forwarding according to a cdb database
It can create forwarding databases from a sendmail-style /etc/aliases or
from user-oriented virtual-domain tables.
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fastforward supports external mailing lists, stored in a binary format for
fast access. It has a tool to convert sendmail-style include files into
binary lists.
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fastforward is more reliable than sendmail. sendmail can't deal with long
aliases, or deeply nested aliases, or deeply nested include files;
fastforward has no limits other than memory. sendmail can produce corrupted
alias files if the system crashes; fastforward is crashproof.
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fastforward's database-building tools are much faster than sendmail's
newaliases. Even better, fastforward deliveries don't pause while the
database is being rebuilt.
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fastforward does not support insecure sendmail-style program deliveries from
include files; you can use qmail's secure built-in mechanisms instead.
fastforward does support program deliveries from /etc/aliases.
Description-md5: e93c346365a08d33be7f38f1f698d328
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu