qmail
- Main Page
- Table of content
- Copyright
- Preface
- What s Inside?
- Style Conventions
- Examples and Patches
- Comments and Questions
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction to Qmail
- Chapter 1. Internet Email
- 1.1 Mail Basics
- 1.2 Mailstore
- 1.3 The Structure of Internet Mail
- Chapter 2. How Qmail Works
- 2.1 Small Programs Work Together
- 2.2 What Does a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) Do?
- 2.3 The Pieces of Qmail
- Chapter 3. Installing Qmail
- 3.1 Where to Find Qmail
- 3.2 Creating the Users and Groups
- 3.3 Configuring and Making the Software
- 3.4 Patching Qmail
- Chapter 4. Getting Comfortable with Qmail
- 4.1 Mailboxes, Local Delivery, and Logging
- 4.2 An Excursion into Daemon Management
- 4.3 Setting Up the Qmail Configuration Files
- 4.4 Starting and Stopping Qmail
- 4.5 Incoming Mail
- 4.6 Procmail and Qmail
- 4.7 Creating Addresses and Mailboxes
- 4.8 Reading Your Mail
- 4.9 Configuring Qmail s Control Files
- 4.10 Using alias
- 4.11 fastforward and etcaliases
- Chapter 5. Moving from Sendmail to Qmail
- 5.1 Running Sendmail and Qmail in Parallel
- 5.2 User Issues
- 5.3 System Issues
- 5.4 Converting Your Aliases File
- 5.5 Trusted Users
- Chapter 6. Handling Locally Generated Mail
- 6.1 qmail-queue
- 6.2 Cleaning Up Injected Mail
- 6.3 Accepting Local Mail from Other Hosts
- 6.4 Distinguishing Injected from Relayed Mail
- Chapter 7. Accepting Mail from Other Hosts
- 7.1 Accepting Incoming SMTP Mail
- 7.2 Accepting and Cleaning Up Local Mail Using the Regular SMTP Daemon
- 7.3 Dealing with Roaming Users
- 7.4 SMTP Authorization and TLS Security
- 7.5 POP-before-SMTP
- Chapter 8. Delivering and Routing Local Mail
- 8.1 Mail to Local Login Users
- 8.2 Mail Sorting
- Chapter 9. Filtering and Rejecting Spam and Viruses
- 9.1 Filtering Criteria
- 9.2 Places to Filter
- 9.3 Spam Filtering and Virus Filtering
- 9.4 Connection-Time Filtering Tools
- 9.5 SMTP-Time Filtering Tools
- 9.6 Delivery Time Filtering Rules
- 9.7 Combination Filtering Schemes
- Part II: Advanced Qmail
- Chapter 10. Local Mail Delivery
- 10.1 How Qmail Delivers Local Mail
- 10.2 Mailbox Deliveries
- 10.3 Program Deliveries
- 10.4 Subaddresses
- 10.5 Special Forwarding Features for Mailing Lists
- 10.6 The Users Database
- 10.7 Bounce Handling
- Chapter 11. Remote Mail Delivery
- 11.1 Telling Local from Remote Mail
- 11.2 qmail-remote
- 11.3 Locating the Remote Mail Host
- 11.4 Remote Mail Failures
- 11.5 Serialmail
- Chapter 12. Virtual Domains
- 12.1 How Virtual Domains Work
- 12.2 Some Common Virtual Domain Setups
- 12.3 Some Virtual Domain Details
- Chapter 13. POP and IMAP Servers and POP Toasters
- 13.1 Each Program Does One Thing
- 13.2 Starting the Pop Server
- 13.3 Testing Your POP Server
- 13.4 Building POP Toasters
- 13.5 Picking Up Mail with IMAP and Web Mail
- Chapter 14. Mailing Lists
- 14.1 Sending Mail to Lists
- 14.2 Using Ezmlm with qmail
- 14.3 Using Other List Managers with Qmail
- 14.4 Sending Bulk Mail That s Not All the Same
- Chapter 15. The Users Database
- 15.1 If There s No Users Database
- 15.2 Making the Users File
- 15.3 How Qmail Uses the Users Database
- 15.4 Typical Users Setup
- 15.5 Adding Entries for Special Purposes
- Chapter 16. Logging, Analysis, and Tuning
- 16.1 What Qmail Logs
- 16.2 Collecting and Analyzing Qmail Logs with Qmailanalog
- 16.3 Analyzing Other Logs
- 16.4 Tuning Qmail
- 16.5 Tuning to Deal with Spam
- 16.6 Looking at the Mail Queue with qmail-qread
- Chapter 17. Many Qmails Make Light Work
- 17.1 Tools for Multiple Computers and Qmail
- 17.2 Setting Up mini-qmail
- Chapter 18. A Compendium of Tips and Tricks
- 18.1 Qmail Won t Compile
- 18.2 Why Qmail Is Delivering Mail Very Slowly
- 18.3 Stuck Daemons and Deliveries
- 18.4 Mail to Valid Users Is Bouncing or Disappearing
- 18.5 Mail Routing
- 18.6 Local Mail Delivery Tricks
- 18.7 Delivering Mail on Intermittent Connections
- 18.8 Limiting Users Mail Access
- 18.9 Adding a Tag to Each Outgoing Message
- 18.10 Logging All Mail
- 18.11 Setting Mail Quotas and Deleting Stale Mail
- 18.12 Backing Up and Restoring Your Mail Queue
- Appendix A. A Sample Script
- A.1 A Mail-to-News Gateway
- Appendix B. Online Qmail Resources
- B.1 Web Sites
- B.2 Mailing Lists
- Colophon
- Index
- Index A
- Index B
- Index C
- Index D
- Index E
- Index F
- Index G
- Index H
- Index I
- Index L
- Index M
- Index N
- Index O
- Index P
- Index Q
- Index R
- Index S
- Index T
- Index U
- Index V
- Index W