Installing and configuring vpopmail

December 20, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 139 comments

• vpopmail version: 5.6.4
• 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

• Dec 20, 2024 (v 5.6.4)
  - Password strength enforcement (PR #5, grabbed from Matt Brookings' 5.5.0-dev version)
  - Dropped min pwd length feature.
  - vmysql.h: tables' layout changed in order to have VARCHAR instead of CHAR. Fields containing ip addresses enlarged to VARCHAR(39), to create room for ipv6. Unix timestamps definition changed from BIGINT(20) to INT(11). (commit 44bad58) Have a look to the upgrade notes below.
• Oct 19, 2024 (v.5.6.3)
  - bug fixed: passwords with length > 8 were denied if sha-512 was disabled
• Oct 14, 2024 (v. 5.6.2)
  - fixed a configure break where a trivial C test program exits on error with gcc-14.1 due to missing headers
  - vusaged/domain.c: fixed -Wimplicit-function-declaration compilation warning
  - vmysql.h: dropped the multicolumn PRIMARY KEY in valias table to allow multiple forwards for a given alias.
     In case one already has the valias table defined, this is the sql query for the upgrade:
     ALTER TABLE `vpopmail`.`valias` DROP PRIMARY KEY, ADD INDEX (`alias`, `domain`, `valias_type`) USING BTREE;
     ALTER TABLE `vpopmail`.`valias` ADD `id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT FIRST, ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
• Jun 7, 2024
  - the header files of libev are now installed in /usr/local/include/libev (was /usr/local/include) to avoid conflicts with libevent. vusaged configure command was adjusted accordingly.
• Dec 11, 2023
  - patch merged with github/brunonymous
  - vpopmail-5.6.0 released (read the upgrading notes)
• Aug 27, 2023
  - new combined patch. More info here
  * The logic of the defaultdelivery patch/feature has been revised. If configured with --enable-defauldelivery vpopmail will save control/defauldelivery in the user's .qmail and vdelivermail LDA in the domain's .qmail-default file. This will achieve multiple benefits: you have qmail forwards and sieve together and valias available. The valias table schema was changed as well.

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Upgrading qmail

December 1, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 550 comments

• Latest version 2024.12.01 (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 support. From now on, instead of releasing a combined patch for qmail, I'll release a package which is the result of the ancient netqmail-1.06 plus the patches and modifications listed below.

Changelog

WARNING: IF YOU ARE UPGRADING qmail AND YOU ARE USING A VERSION BEFORE 2024.01.11, BE AWARE THAT dk-filter HAS BEEN DROPPED, SO YOU HAVE TO RECONFIGURE DKIM AND MODIFY YOUR rc FILE ACCORDINGLY.

• Dec 01, 2024 (More info here and in the github release notes)
  - Added support for EAI (RFC 5336 SMTP Email Address Internationalization) (#13). Thanks to https://github.com/arnt/qmail-smtputf8/tree/smtputf8-tls. libidn2 package (libidn2-dev on debian) is a new dependence.
  - chkuser is now smtputf8 compliant. It accepts utf8 characters in sender and recipient addresses provided that the remote server advertises the SMTPUTF8 verb in MAIL FROM, otherwise it allows only ASCII characters plus additional chars from the CHKUSER_ALLOWED_CHARS set.
  * dropped variables CHKUSER_ALLOW_SENDER_CHAR_xx CHKUSER_ALLOW_RCPT_CHAR_xx (replaced by CHKUSER_ALLOWED_CHARS)
  * dropped variables CHKUSER_ALLOW_SENDER_SRS and CHKUSER_ALLOW_RCPT_SRS, as we are always accepting '+' and '#' characters
  * added variables CHKUSER_INVALID_UTF8_CHARS and CHKUSER_ALLOWED_CHARS
• Oct 26, 2024
  - qmail-remote.c patched to dinamically touch control/notlshosts/<fqdn> if control/notlshosts_auto contains any number greater than 0 in order to skip the TLS connection for remote servers with an obsolete TLS version. (tx Alexandre Fonceca) (commit)
  - defined CHKUSER_DISABLE_VARIABLE "RELAYCLIENT" in chkuser_settings.h
  - enabled CHKUSER_SENDER_NOCHECK_VARIABLE "RELAYCLIENT" in chkuser_settings.h
  - fixed several compilation breaks/warnings on later gcc compilers (tx Pablo Murillo)
  - invalid auth fix in qmail-smtpd.c's smtp_auth function (tx Alexandre Fonceca for the advice) (commit)
  - qmail path determined dinamically in conf-policy
  - added a patch to remove chkuser and the vpopmail dependency (patches dir)
• Jun 8, 2024
  - conf-channels: default number of channels increased to 4 (was 2). Now qmail offers 2 additional channels with respect to the 2 offered by default (local and remote). More info here
  - maxrcpt: error code changed to 452 due to RFC 4.5.3.1 (was 553). If DISABLE_MAXRCPT is defined it skips the check, otherwise outgoing messages from mailing lists would be rejected. (commit)
• May 16, 2024
  - DKIM: Make the dkimsign binary _not_ derive the "d=" domain value from the Return-Path header (tx mpdude)
  - Fixed -Wstringop-overflow on qmail-start.c line 128 (gcc-13.2) (commit)
  - Fixed -Wincompatible-pointer-types compilation warnings onsubstdio.h (commit)
  - Big Concurrency fix patch removed, as it is incompatible with the above change.
  - Create a trigger to decide if your qmail-smtpd instance should respect badmailfrom regex or not. This could be very handling if you decide to have very strict rules for your qmail-smtpd that you don´t want to be applied to qmail-submission. Usage: add export DISABLE_BADMAILFROM=1 to run file service (tx brdelphus)

Email Address Internationalization for qmail. MAV from chkuser modified accordingly

November 20, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 0 comments

We now have support for EAI (RFC 5336 SMTP Email Address Internationalization), as I accomodated the patch of Arnt Gulbrandsen into my qmail distribution (Nov 03, 2024 and later versions). This means that from now on addresses containing UTF8 characters like mimì@domain.tld or even आर्न्ट@यूनिवर्सल.भारत will be accepted provided that the remote server advertises the SMTPUTF8 verb after the MAIL FROM. If the remote server doesn't advertise SMTPUTF8 capabilities, then the conversation goes as in the past with no allowed UTF8 characters in the email addresses, with a few exceptions for special chars like $%?*^~&/\£#+_-.=

I also had to modify the Mail Address Verification program shipped by chkuser because, if activated by defining the CHKUSER_SENDER_FORMAT and/or CHKUSER_RCPT_FORMAT variables, it accepted only ASCII characters plus a small set of additional UTF8 in user and domain names. And since I was there I simplyfied the code dropping a couple of functions and variables.

daemontools

October 14, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 36 comments

• More info here: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
• Original author: D.J. Bernstein
• github
• version: 0.78.3

daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. It monitors qmail services and saves error messages to one or more logs.

Changelog

• Oct 14, 2024 (version 0.78.3)
  - all package/ scripts now run the bash shell
  - package/run script will recognize if we are in an lxc container to skip inittab configuration
  - package/run.rclocal will find both /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local
  - daemontools-0.78.2 directory renamed to daemontools
• Oct 9, 2024
  - added -ltr to conf-ld to restore compatibility with systems with glibc prior to v. 2.17 like RHEL6/CentOS6, where the librt.so library is not linked
• Oct 4, 2024
  - version 0.78.1: added package/compile which was missing again! (tx Bai Borko)
• Sep 6, 2024
  - fixed a .gitignore issue which was preventing the package/compile script upload (thanks Ivelin Topalov)
• Jul 29, 2024 (version 0.78)
  - multilog prints a readable datetime if used with "d" flag, it prints timestamps if used in the usual way with the "t" flag (80f2133)
  - fixed several compilation warnings and/or breaks on gcc-14.1
• Dec 9, 2023
  -moved my patched daemontools to github and named 0.77 the new version
  -clear service moved to qmail/supervise/clear

netqmail-1.06 - basic setup

September 10, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 34 comments

Changelog

• Sep 10, 2024: the original netqmail sources are now compatible with latest gcc compilers.

Roundcube webmail

September 7, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 16 comments

May 19, 2024: Roundcube webmail 1.6.7 security fix. It is sufficient to update Roundcube to the latest version.

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• Info: https://roundcube.net
• Version: 1.6.9

Roundcube is a full featured webmail with a nice interface.

Changelog

• Sep 7, 2024
  RC update to v. 1.6.9
• May 19, 2024
  RC update to v. 1.6.7 (security fix)
• Gen 21, 2024
  RC upgraded to v. 1.6.6
  -new $config['imap_host'] variable
  -all my SMTP config options were stripped from my configuration file and I had to restore them
• Jan 3, 2021
  disabled the SMTP authentication when sending messages via RC. SMTP port changed to 25.

Read the release note at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md for more info.

qmailadmin

September 7, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 121 comments

• Author:  Inter7
• Version: 1.2.23
• github
• Changelog

qmailAdmin is a free software package that provides a web interface for managing a qmail system with virtual domains. It provides admin for adding/deleting users, Aliases, Forwards, Mailing lists and Autoresponders.

As you can see, for convenience I moved the qmailadmin sources to my github space. Nonetheless, all information about qmailadmin will continue to be posted here, and this page remains the place to seek support if needed.

This qmailadmin puts togheter the original Inter7's 1.2.16 version with the following features (updated to 2023.08.27 old patch version):

• qmailadmin-skin, a patch that I created during covid-19 spare time, provides a new responsive skin to the control panel. It modifies everything under the html dir and many .c files in order to adjust the html embedded into the source files. Added a style sheet in the "images" folder and a couple of png files for the qmail logo. It will be much easier to modify the qmailadmin's skin from now on.
• A patch to call cracklib in order to check for the password strenght. This should avoid unsafe accounts created by domain administrators such as "test 123456".
• A nice patch (thanks to Tony, original author unknown) which gets qmailadmin to have authentication failures logged. This makes possible to ban malicious IPs via fail2ban. It is required to create the log file /var/log/qma-auth.log initially and assign write priviledges to apache.
• ezmlm-idx 7 compatibility patch (author unknown), which restores the compatibility with ezmlm-idx-7 (thanks to J.D. Trolinger for the advice).
• a fix to the catchall account (thanks to Luca Franceschini).
• another fix to autorespond.c to correct the way the .qmail files are modified
• qmail-autoresponder support (thanks Nathanaël Semhoun)

autorespond

July 18, 2024 by Roberto Puzzanghera 22 comments

• Author: Inter7
• github repo
• Latest version: 2.0.7
• Changelog

autorespond is used for vacation messages. It's required by qmailadmin.