Qmail-doc

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Table of contents
1 Bernstein's Orginal Documentation
2 Man Pages
3 FAQs
4 Installation Help
5 General How-Tos
6 Troubleshooting
7 Virtual Users
8 General
9 Large Servers
10 Non-English Documentation
11 Books
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Bernstein's Orginal Documentation

FAQ (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html)
Sendmail Migration (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/sendmail.html)
Installing mini-qmail (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html)
Building A POP Toaster (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/toaster.html)
The qmail pictures (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures.html)
Precompiled Var-Qmail Packages (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html)


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Man Pages

  • Orignal qmail manual pages converted to HTML as a tarball (http://www.qmail.org/man.tar.gz), and individually (http://www.qmail.org/man/index.html).


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FAQs


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Installation Help

  • Life with qmail (http://www.lifewithqmail.org/) by Dave Sill
  • Larry Engleman has a Qt GUI (http://www.fullywired.net/larry/qgi.html) installer.
  • Bill Shupp has Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster (http://www.shupp.org/toaster) for easy installation on Linux boxes, including some rpm and apt hints. Great for Debian users.
  • Gentoo has qmail (http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=qmail) in portage and guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml)
  • Michael has webmail-guide (http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm) for distributions
  • qmail rocks (http://www.qmailrocks.org) has rpm files for easy virtual hosting environment
  • Linuxpourtous (http://www.linuxpourtous.com) has a script (http://www.linuxpourtous.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=2&id=2&Itemid=4) to facilitate the installation of qmail and its tools
  • Miguel Beccari and Nick Hemmesch created qmailtoaster RPMS (http://www.qmailtoaster.com/)
  • TNPI company created mail::toaster (http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/)
  • qmail toaster (http://www.jerfu.com/toaster/FullToaster_1.0.7.html) for Redhat 9.0
  • qmail server walkthrough (http://www.qmailrocks.org/checklist.php) for Debian, Redhat, and Slackware (with many addon management, av, and antispam tools)
  • qmail books (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.amazon.com+qmail&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial) from amazon.com
  • qmail-HOWTO (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html) by Adam McKenna
  • Godshell qMail Toaster Wiki (http://toaster.godshell.com) - A complete qmail based email server with plugin support. Site includes an extensive knowledge base of additional topics.
  • You can also buy commercial support, If you are unable to install qmail
  • There is also news.comp.mail.qmail (news:alt.comp.mail.qmail)
  • Remember to read all documentation from qmail.org
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General How-Tos

  • Adam D. McKenna has written a qmail HOWTO (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html).
  • Patrick contributes an xinetd (http://www.qmail.org/xinetd.text) configuration for qmail-pop3d.
  • Looking for information on how to add a disclaimer (http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/) to your outgoing email?
  • Andrew St. Jean describes his qmail configuration (http://www.arda.homeunix.net/mailsetup.html) and its integration with SquirrelMail, Courier IMAP, and TMDA.
  • Jeffrey Clement wrote up a Debian HOWTO (http://jclement.ca/docs/debian_qmail/) on setting up qmail, Vmailmgr, CourierIMAP, SpamAssassin, and ezmlm.
  • Sylvestre Ledru wrote some bits on using spam assassin with qmail (http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_qmail_spamassassin.php).
  • Roberto Lacava has Italian installation instructions for qmail on Red Hat 9 (http://www.baslug.org/vega/qmail/).
  • Erwin Hoffmann has compiled a tutorial about SMTP Authentication (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html) which is available in english language. Readers will find an updated version of Krysztof Dabrowski's SMTP Auth patch which should cleanly interface with eg. netqmail-1.04.
  • Larry M. Smith has written instructions for using qmail as a honeypot (http://www.fahq2.com/qmail/honeypot.html).
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Troubleshooting

  • Dave Kitabjian has some diagnostic suggestions for various qmail problems on his Q-Cards (http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/) page.


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Virtual Users

  • Philip Jacob wrote up some instructions (http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/pop3.html) on using checkpoppasswd to create virtual users on virtual hosts, accessing their mail via pop3.


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General


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Large Servers

  • Paul Gregg has written instructions on how to configure qmail to handle many mail users (multiple email addresses) with separate POP3 accounts - without using system accounts (http://www.pgregg.com/projects/).


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Non-English Documentation

  • Djalil Chafaï has written «Introduction à qmail» (http://savage.iut-blagnac.fr/projets/doc/qmail/v0.4/), an introduction to qmail for french speaking users.
  • Erwin Hoffmann was supposed to give a German-language QMAIL presentation (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail_en.html) at a congress of the German Unix User Group (GUUG) (http://www.guug.de). However, the whole congress was canceled thus the presentation is more or less "virtual".
  • Davide Giunchi has written an Italian qmail HOWTO (http://folug.linux.it/qmail/qmail-HOWTO.html), this Italian language document explains how to install, configure and run qmail. This isn't a translation of the English "qmail howto" but is written from scratch.
  • Oliver Lehmann has written a German FreeBSD qmail-howto (http://www.pofo.de/HOWTO/qmail/). Steven Fettig has translated Chapters 1-4 into English (http://www.stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/cat_qmailhowto.php).
  • Ismail Yenigul has written a Turkish qmail-howto (http://www.enderunix.org/documents/qmail.html).
  • Martin Östlund has written a Swedish qmail-howto (http://support.linux.se/?main=docs/qmailhowto.php&org=docs)
  • Daniele Ripanti and Marco Rocchetti have written a HOWTO in Italian (http://web.tiscali.it/dax_ramis) describing a qmail installation on FreeBSD with POP3, IMAP, Mailing list, Antivirus, Antispam support and webmail.
  • Reza Gamal has written a qmail & vpopmail installation guide in Indonesian (http://chipset.bogor.suse.or.id/articles/zach_mail.txt).
  • Michel Morelli is running an Italian-language list (http://lists.ziobudda.net/mailman/listinfo/qmail-it).
  • Paul Niewiadomski has translated man pages (http://iidea.pl/~paweln/tlum/qmail-doki.tar.bz2) into Polish. Actually, he's Pawe³ Niewiadomski, but you need an 8859-2 character set to properly render his name. I can't wait for UTF-8 to be supported everywhere.
  • Asfihani has written Installing Qmail With [http://www.layangan.com/asfik/writings/qmail-vmailmgr.html vmailmgr and vpopmail (http://www.layangan.com/asfik/writings/qmail-vpopmail.html) in Indonesian language. He also covers omail admin, courier-imap and squirrelmail.
  • Frank Niedermann has written a HowTo install qmail on Debian in German language (http://www.cargal.org/downloads/HOW-TO/debianqmail/debianqmail.html).
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Books

  • John Levine has written the O'Reilly & Associates "owl" book on qmail (owls (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/qmail/) eat (http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/jan/papr/ghowl.html) bats< (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2/)). More

information on the book is available on John's page (http://qmail.gurus.com/).

  • Dave Sill has written The qmail Handbook (http://www.apress.com/catalog/book/1893115402/). You can buy it at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893115402/davesill).
  • Erwin Hoffmann is writing a book in German on qmail, called Qmail&co. (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmailbook.html) Unfortunately, the book has been cancelled by the publisher.
  • Florian Schiessl points out his Qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, ... Howto for Debian woody (http://www.debianhowto.de/de/qmail_MTA/)
  • Sulamita Garcia wrote some Portugese qmail documentation (http://br.linuxchix.org/node.php?id=63). It descries how to run Qmail + vpopmail + squirrelmail + courierImap + qmailAdmin + SMTP-Qmail-auth + RBLSMTP.
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