Installing a Let's Encrypt certificate for your qmail, dovecot and apache servers
Changelog Jul 25, 2026 (v. 4.0) hook scripts and below documentation completeley reviewed.- Added a new dehydrated-renew wrapper script to execute certificate renewal and perform service synchronization for SNI only when one or more certificates have actually changed.- Introduced a change flag...
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,...
Adding clamav-unofficial-sigs
More info here Version: 8.0.0 The clamav-unofficial-sigs script provides a simple way to download, test, and update third-party signature databases provided by Sanesecurity, FOXHOLE, OITC, Scamnailer, BOFHLAND, CRDF, Porcupine, Securiteinfo, MalwarePatrol, Yara-Rules Project, urlhaus, etc. The script will also generate and install cron,...
Installing Mailman3 in a qmail + vpopmail server
Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce...
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...
Installing ClamAV
Info: http://www.clamav.net Latest version: 1.5.2 Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Changelog Mar 4, 2026- clamav upgraded to v 1.5.2 Oct 11, 2025 - clamav upgraded to v 1.5.0. A recent version of...
VqAdmin
Original author: Inter7 Version 2.4.7 Changelog Download from github My old patches vqadmin is a web based control panel that allows system administrators to perform actions which require root access — for example, adding and deleting domains. As you can see, VqAdmin has a new version with...
Configuring DKIM for qmail
Index Changelog Acknowlegments Creating the domainkey signature for your outgoing emails Configuring qmail-remote for signing and qmail-smtpd for verification rc script qmail-smtpd/run script Testing qmail-dkim Verification test Testing the DNS record Configuring qmail-smtpd for signing outgoing messages qmail-smtpd run script Testing the signature at qmail-smtpd level Making qmail-dkim and simscan live together in peace Choosing...
