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...
Sieve interpreter & Dovecot ManageSieve
The Pigeonhole project provides Sieve support as a plugin for Dovecot's Local Delivery Agent (LDA) and also for its LMTP service. The plugin implements a Sieve interpreter, which filters incoming messages using a script specified in the Sieve language. The Sieve...
Installing Dovecot and sieve on a VpopMail + qmail server
Changelog May 14, 2026- dovecot 2.4.4 released. Changed dovecot_config_version and dovecot_storage_version in dovecot.conf- the new version has lua as a dependency. Added --without-lua at configure command Feb 25, 2026- Added Server Name Indication (SNI) settings in sni.conf.template, imported from local.conf commit- userdb iterate query...
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,...
e-mail indexing with Solr FTS Engine
Solr is a Lucene indexing server. Dovecot communicates to it using HTTP/XML queries. With this indexing server, you can do text searches in your emails. Download latest version: v. 9.10.1 Solr documentation page Solr FTS Engine documentation page for Dovecot Configuring the FTS plugin in dovecot Changelog Feb 8, 2026- upgraded to v 9.10.1 Mar...
SQL valias with sieve solution for qmail. New features and Roundcube plugin
Changelog Mar 29 , 2025 (vpopmail v5.6.8)- defaultdelivery feature (--enable-defaultdelivery) changes:* vdelivermail is installed by default in .qmail-default of newly created domains with option 'delete' as in the previous version.* if no user's valiases and no .qmail are found, then the message...
Dovecot's vpopmail-auth driver patch
Update: This patch won't work with version 2.4.x. Download the patch Ali Erturk TURKER is maintaining a patch which restores to life the vpopmail-auth driver for Dovecot (more info here). Patch and configure as follows. Be aware that an autoreconf must be provided, as...
Dovecot vpopmail-auth driver removal. Migrating to the SQL driver
Those who are still using the Dovecot's vpopmail auth driver should consider a migration to another backend, as on January 4, 2021 dovecot-2.3.13 was released and the vpopmail auth driver removed (more info here). I'll show below how to support domain aliases...
