qmailadmin

Author: Inter7
Version: 1.2.16
Dowload the sources from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmailadmin/files/

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.

Before installing, you may want to patch qmailadmin with a patch of mine which enables a check for the password strenght. This should avoid unsafe accounts created by domain administrators such as "test 123456". Since my skills on C programming are very low, I preferred to do the check via javascript form validation. Currently only password which contains at list an uppercase character, a digit, a special character and are at least eight characters long are allowed. Of course we have to trust that the domain administrator will not have javascript disabled, but there's no reason to think that he has any interest to do so. You can adjust the javascript file pw_strenght_chk.js inside the html dir to your needs.

We will also apply an additional patch (thanks to Tony) in order to have authentication failures logged. This makes possibile 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.

The next patch is the ezmlm-idx 7 compatibility, which restores the compatibility with ezmlm-idx-7 (thanks to J.D. Trolinger for the advice).

Finally the fix to the catchall account (thanks to Luca Franceschini).

Install

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/tar/qmailadmin-1.2.16.tar.gz
wget http://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/qmailadmin//qmailadmin-1.2.16-pwd-strenght.2015.04.25.patch
wget http://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/qmailadmin/qmailadmin-1.2.16-log.patch
wget http://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/qmailadmin/mailinglist.c.ezmlm7.patch
wget http://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/qmailadmin/qmailadmin-catchall.patch

touch /var/log/qma-auth.log
chgrp apache /var/log/qma-auth.log
chmod g+w /var/log/qma-auth.log

tar xzf qmailadmin-1.2.16.tar.gz
cd qmailadmin-1.2.16
patch -p1 < ../qmailadmin-1.2.16-pwd-strenght.2015.04.25.patch
patch < ../qmailadmin-1.2.16-log.patch
patch < ../mailinglist.c.ezmlm7.patch
patch < ../qmailadmin-catchall.patch
chown -R root.root .

./configure \
  --enable-htmldir=/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail \
  --enable-cgibindir=/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/cgi-bin \
  --enable-cgipath=/cgi-bin/qmailadmin \
  --enable-imagedir=/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/qmailadmin/qmailadmin_img \
  --enable-imageurl=/qmailadmin_img \
  --enable-htmllibdir=/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/qmailadmin \
  --enable-qmaildir=/var/qmail \
  --enable-domain-autofill \
  --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail \
  --enable-vpopgroup=vchkpw \
  --enable-autoresponder-path=/usr/local/bin \
  --enable-ezmlmdir=/usr/local/bin/ezmlm \
  --enable-modify-quota \
  --disable-ezmlm-mysql \
  --disable-trivial-password

make
make install-strip

This installs qmailadmin in /usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail

Be aware the the home graphics middleleft1.png released with qmailadmin has license problems as shown here (thanks to Marc for the hint).

Apache virtual host

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName yourdomain.net
        DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/cgi-bin/"
        ErrorLog  "/usr/local/www/logs/qmailadmin_error.log"
        CustomLog "/usr/local/www/logs/qmailadmin_access.log" common
        <Directory "/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail">
            Require all granted
            AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory "/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options ExecCGI
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        Alias /qmailadmin_img/ "/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/qmailadmin/qmailadmin_img/"
        <Directory "/usr/local/www/htdocs/qmail/qmailadmin/qmailadmin_img">
            Require all granted
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now browse to https://yourdomain.net/cgi-bin/qmailadmin and login as postmaster: