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[edit] Bernstein's Orginal Documentation
- FAQ
- Sendmail Migration
- Installing mini-qmail
- Building A POP Toaster
- The qmail pictures
- Precompiled Var-Qmail Packages
[edit] Man Pages
- Orignal qmail manual pages converted to HTML as a tarball, and individually.
[edit] FAQs
- Dan Bernstien's FAQ
- Dan's FAQ in different formats
- Dan's FAQ in Spanish
- Chris Johnson wrote something called The qmail newbie's guide to relaying, which is supposed to answer most of the relaying questions that come across the qmail list.
[edit] Installation Help
- Life with qmail by Dave Sill
- Larry Engleman has a Qt GUI installer.
- Bill Shupp has Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster for easy installation on Linux boxes, including some rpm and apt hints. Great for Debian users.
- Gentoo has qmail in portage and guide
- Michael has webmail-guide for distributions
- qmail rocks has rpm files for easy virtual hosting environment
- Linuxpourtous has a script to facilitate the installation of qmail and its tools
- Miguel Beccari and Nick Hemmesch created qmailtoaster RPMS
- TNPI company created mail::toaster
- qmail toaster for Redhat 9.0
- qmail server walkthrough for Debian, Redhat, and Slackware (with many addon management, av, and antispam tools)
- qmail books from amazon.com
- qmail-HOWTO by Adam McKenna
- Godshell qMail Toaster Wiki - A complete qmail based email server with plugin support. Site includes an extensive knowledge base of additional topics.
- You can also buy commercial support, If you are unable to install qmail
- There is also news.comp.mail.qmail
- Remember to read all documentation from qmail.org
[edit] General How-Tos
- Bill Shupp has an easy to follow toaster at Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster
- Dave Sill has written Life with qmail.
- Adam D. McKenna has written a qmail HOWTO.
- Patrick contributes an xinetd configuration for qmail-pop3d.
- Qmail-VmailMgr-Courier-SquirrelMail installation guide, written by Konstantin Riabitsev.
- Looking for information on how to add a disclaimer to your outgoing email?
- Andrew St. Jean describes his qmail configuration and its integration with SquirrelMail, Courier IMAP, and TMDA.
- Chandrashelkhar Joshi is running courier-imap under daemontools.
- Kris Kelley has Gentoo installation instructions.
- Jeffrey Clement wrote up a Debian HOWTO on setting up qmail, Vmailmgr, CourierIMAP, SpamAssassin, and ezmlm.
- Sylvestre Ledru wrote a big howto about the installation a full qmail server with imap, antispam, antivirus, stats, webmail, etc.
- Sylvestre Ledru wrote some bits on using spam assassin with qmail.
- Roberto Lacava has Italian installation instructions for qmail on Red Hat 9.
- Erwin Hoffmann has compiled a tutorial about SMTP Authentication which is available in english language. Readers will find an updated version of Krysztof Dabrowski's SMTP Auth patch which should cleanly interface with eg. netqmail-1.04.
- Larry M. Smith has written instructions for using qmail as a honeypot.
- Sumanth NS has a qmail + UUCP how-to.
- Control files documentation Qmail-control-files
- Chris Beach has written notes on automating Spam Assassin's learning process on QMail/Plesk installations, and mail filtering using procmail and QMail
[edit] Troubleshooting
- Dave Kitabjian has some diagnostic suggestions for various qmail problems on his Q-Cards page.
[edit] Virtual Users
- Philip Jacob wrote up some instructions on using checkpoppasswd to create virtual users on virtual hosts, accessing their mail via pop3.
[edit] General
- Ciprian has three benchmark articles comparing sendmail, qmail, and PostFix.
[edit] Large Servers
- Paul Gregg has written instructions on how to configure qmail to handle many mail users (multiple email addresses) with separate POP3 accounts - without using system accounts.
[edit] Non-English Documentation
- Translations of Life with qmail by Dave Sill
- Djalil Chafaï has written «Introduction à qmail», an introduction to qmail for french speaking users.
- Erwin Hoffmann was supposed to give a German-language QMAIL presentation at a congress of the German Unix User Group (GUUG) (http://www.guug.de). However, the whole congress was canceled thus the presentation is more or less "virtual".
- Davide Giunchi has written an Italian qmail HOWTO, this Italian language document explains how to install, configure and run qmail. This isn't a translation of the English "qmail howto" but is written from scratch.
- Oliver Lehmann has written a German FreeBSD qmail-howto. Steven Fettig has translated Chapters 1-4 into English.
- Ismail Yenigul has written a Turkish qmail-howto.
- Martin Östlund has written a Swedish qmail-howto
- Rene Schleicher has written a qmail/vpopmail Installation HOWTO in German.
- Daniele Ripanti and Marco Rocchetti have written a HOWTO in Italian describing a qmail installation on FreeBSD with POP3, IMAP, Mailing list, Antivirus, Antispam support and webmail.
- Reza Gamal has written a qmail & vpopmail installation guide in Indonesian.
- Michel Morelli is running an Italian-language list.
- Paul Niewiadomski has translated man pages into Polish. Actually, he's Pawe³ Niewiadomski, but you need an 8859-2 character set to properly render his name. I can't wait for UTF-8 to be supported everywhere.
- Marco Tizzoni has translated Life With Qmail into Italian.
- Mário Gamito has some Portuguese documentation.
- Asfihani has written Installing Qmail With vmailmgr and [http://www.layangan.com/asfik/writings/qmail-vpopmail.html vpopmail in Indonesian language. He also covers omail admin, courier-imap and squirrelmail.
- Frank Niedermann has written a HowTo install qmail on Debian in German language.
[edit] Books
information on the book is available on John's page.
- Dave Sill has written The qmail Handbook. You can buy it at Amazon.
- Erwin Hoffmann is writing a book in German on qmail, called Qmail&co. Unfortunately, the book has been cancelled by the publisher.
- Samuel Prakoso and Tomy and Onno Purbo have written a qmail book in Indonesian
- Florian Schiessl points out his Qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, ... Howto for Debian woody
- Ricardo Oliveira and Mario Gamito have written a qmail book in Portuguese entitled Como instalar um servidor completo de email.
- Sulamita Garcia wrote some Portugese qmail documentation. It descries how to run Qmail + vpopmail + squirrelmail + courierImap + qmailAdmin + SMTP-Qmail-auth + RBLSMTP.
- Baris Simsek, Ismail Yenigul and Huzeyfe Onal have written a new Qmail Book in Turkish http://www.acikakademi.com/catalog/qmail/
