patches

Patching qmail

Latest stable combined patch for netqmail-1.06 v. 2021.09.27 (MD5) Changelog The complete changelog and patch info are inside the README.PATCH file. Sep 27, 2021-chkuser: now it allows double hyphens "--" in the sender email, like in y--s.co.jp (diff here) Aug 22, 2021-minor fix to qlog: now...

Slackware guest on Linux-VServer

Info: http://linux-vserver.org/ What is Linux-Vserver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer Download only my patch: /files/linux-vserver/linux-vserver_slackware-14.2.patch Download my patch and installer script: /files/linux-vserver/slack_vserver.tar.gz NEW: patch and installer script for current@03.07.2021 (testing) Linux-Vserver is an open source software which acts as a virtual private server implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization capabilities...

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...

Limiting the number of emails sent by a given auth-user/domain/IP

If you want to avoid the risk of compromising your server because of accounts who are sending messages indiscriminately to the world, due to the fact that their password was violated in some way, then you can consider Luca Franceschini's rcptcheck-overlimit.sh...

smtp-auth + qmail-tls + forcetls patch for qmail

Download (MD5) Version: 2020.05.08 Changelog 2020.05.08- qmail-tls patch updated to v. 20200107* working client cert authentication with TLSv1.3 2019.06.28- qmail-tls patch updated to v. 20190517* bug: qmail-smtpd ssl_free before tls_out error string 2019-04-17- qmail-tls patch updated to v. 20190408* make compatible with openssl 1.1.0* compiler warnings...

Merry Xmas and happy new... patch!

Massive Christmas present by my italian friend Luca Franceschini of digitalmind. He merged his combo with my combined patch (2016.12.02 version) adding several (heavily customized) patches and functionalities. Luca is a C programmer and an expert system administrator who manages big...

Running OpenBoard in a window

OpenBoard home page Download my patch Github discussion Slackbuild (Slackware users) These days I'm forced again to do lessons from remote. My school asked me to refer to Google Meet for the videoconferences and one thing I disliked was the Jam interactive whiteboard, which is...

qmailadmin password-strenght patch

May 1 2020 update: This patch has been replaced by the qmailadmin-cracklib patch, that is much more robust. Look here for more info download A big lack of qmail account managers, expecially qmailadmin, is that they do not provide any password complexity check....

Configuring SPF for qmail

The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender address forgery. More precisely, the current version of SPF — called SPFv1 or SPF Classic — protects the envelope sender address, which is used for...

qmail-taps-extended

The qmail-taps-extended patch by Inter7 (extension by Michai Secasiu) provides the ability to save each email which flows through the system. You could decide to log only the messages which have the From or To address set to a local account. You just have...