Upgrading qmail
Latest version 2026.04.07 (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...
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,...
daemontools
More info here: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html Original author: D.J. Bernstein github version: 0.83 daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. It monitors qmail services and saves error messages to one or more logs. Changelog Jan 5, 2026 (v0.83)This release doesn't add any new feature nor fixes...
Limiting the number of emails sent by a given auth-user/domain/IP
If you followed the 'quick configuration' based on the config-all script, this feature was already configured for you at that time with the default settings. Changelog Jun 14, 2025- Added a cronjob for rcptcheck-overlimit that only removes cases that didn't exceed the limit,...
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...
Email Address Internationalization for qmail. MAV from chkuser modified accordingly
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...
smtp-auth + qmail-tls + forcetls patch for qmail
Browse patched qmail on github Changelog Sep 26, 2024- sources moved to github- solved (I think) all compilation errors/warnings against GCC 14.2 Jul 10, 2024- Bug fix in qmail-smtpd.c's smtp_auth function where the auth command with no argument or with an invalid one causes...
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...
