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...
Slackware guest on Linux-VServer
This documentation on Linux-Vserver for Slackware is no longer mantained, as I switched to LXC. If you plan to do the same, have a look to my notes regarding the migration to LXC and my LXC series of articles. Info: http://linux-vserver.org/ (the...
Running OpenBoard in a window
Edit: this patch has been merged into OpenBoard 1.7.0, so this issue is closed. OpenBoard home page Download my patch Github 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...
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May 1 2020 update: This patch has been replaced by the qmailadmin-cracklib patch, that is much more robust.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 Sender Policy Framework (SPF) on 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...
Greetdelay for qmail
Download here Author of the patch: John Simpson (?) I replaced the original greetdelay by Erwin Hoffmann with the patch by John Simpson. Now communications trying to send commands before the greeting will be closed provided that you declare DROP_PRE_GREET; premature disconnections will...
Configuring moreipme
The qmail-moreipme patch by Scott Gifford prevents a problem caused by an MX or other mail routing directive instructing qmail to connect to itself without realizing it's connecting to itself, saving CPU time and in the most critical cases it takes...
