qmail + vpopmail + Dovecot | Roberto's qmail notes
Quoting D. J. Bernstein definition qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts References D. J. Bernstein's qmail site http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html Old qmail.org site Life with qmail Erwin Hoffman's "qmail support" site John Simpson's "qmail information" pages see also: my...
ChangeLog
May 10, 2026roundcube upgraded to v. 1.7.1 (security release) May 14, 2026- dovecot upgraded to v. 2.4.4 May 10, 2026roundcube upgraded to v. 1.7.0 Apr 7, 2026- qmail v. 2026.04.07 Mar 30, 2026- dovecot 2.4.3 released Mar 4, 2026- clamav upgraded to v 1.5.2 Feb 25, 2026-...
Upgrading qmail
Latest version 2026.04.07 (github) Changelog Readme For my convenience I moved the qmail sources to my github space. Nonetheless, all information about qmail and related programs will continue to be posted in this web space, and this pages remain the place to eventually seek...
Installing ClamAV
Info: http://www.clamav.net Latest version: 1.5.2 Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Changelog Mar 4, 2026- clamav upgraded to v 1.5.2 Oct 11, 2025 - clamav upgraded to v 1.5.0. A recent version of...
Server Name Indication (SNI) for qmail and dovecot
Server Name Indication (SNI) is a TLS extension that enables a server to present different certificates based on the hostname requested by the client during the TLS handshake. In modern email environments, multiple domains frequently share the same IP address for SMTP,...
Installing a Let's Encrypt certificate for your qmail, dovecot and apache servers
Changelog Feb 25, 2026- the hook.sh script optionally configures qmail and dovecot for Server Name Indication (SNI) Jun 6, 2025- dehydrated now launches a hook.sh script which handles the post-installation tasks (assemble and copy the certificate into the qmail dir, restart the server...
Installing and configuring VPopMail
VPopMail version: 5.6.13 github: sagredo-dev/vpopmail Download Changelog README.vdelivermail Inter7's original page Vpopmail provides an easy way to manage virtual email domains and non /etc/passwd email accounts on your mail servers. Changelog Feb 11, 2026- vlimits.c: avoids no file found exit when .qmailadmin-limits is not existent because no limits are...
VqAdmin
Original author: Inter7 Version 2.4.7 Changelog Download from github My old patches vqadmin is a web based control panel that allows system administrators to perform actions which require root access — for example, adding and deleting domains. As you can see, VqAdmin has a new version with...
