2006/12/22 Felipe Costa has written a book
for qmail in
Brazil-Portuguese.
2006/12/17 Marcelo Coelho has written a patch for SRS. More
info on SRS. SRS and SPF work
together.
2006/12/17 Krzysztof Marciniak has written a
qmail book in Polish entitled "qmail. Szybki
i wydajny serwer pocztowy".
2006/12/15 Antonio Casado Rodríguez created
mdsmon
(MailDirSize Monitor)
2006/12/11 EZIX has a NoRelaySMTP,
which writes email directly into a user's Maildir.
2006/11/08 Russ Nelson suggests a method for
stopping qmail reliably. When you need to stop qmail to do
something, do it like this:
svc -d /service/qmail-s*
# wait for qmail-send to exit.
setlock /service/qmail/supervise/lock sh -c (
# do stuff here
svc -u /service/qmail-s*
)
2006/10/23 Balazs Nagy has a concurrent IP
connection limiter for ucspi-tcp. Tomislav Randjic has ported
that patch to both ucspi-ssl
and ucspi-tls.
2006/09/30 Richard Lyons wants to sign
messages using domainkeys after verh has
modified the message, so he added code to qmail-remote to [re]sign the
message.
2006/09/02 Folkert van Heusden wrote multitail, which
monitors multiple logfiles. MultiTail lets you view one or
multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that
it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses).
2006/09/01 Skaarup has written a package for
analyzing logfiles for a lot of
Dan's tools.
2006/06/06 Russ Nelson wrote the selfhelo patch, which
causes qmail-smtpd to reject email sent using a HELO hostname equal to
your IP address, your hostname, or any hostname without dots.
2006/05/26 Niki Denev wrote qstat-gid.
It prints info about the messages in the qmail queue sorted per GID.
He uses it to quickly see if any user sends excessive amounts of
mail/spam and fills the queue.
2006/05/24 Jon Lewis has an SMTP banner delay
program. This causes SMTP clients which give up early, or start
pipelining too soon, to have their connections rejected. Typically
these clients are sources of spam.
2006/04/24 Thomas Mangin has a greylisting
solution in Python.
2006/04/06 Lukas Feiler has instructions for
installing qmail
with TLS and SMTP auth,... Courier-IMAP/POP3, MySQL, Clam AV,
SpamAssassin - all with virtual domain support.
2006/02/15 William Baxter wrote ucspi-ssl
which uses OpenSSL to encrypt connections.
2005/07/13 EnderUNIX has
updated qsheff, a
qmail-queue replacement to filter mail traffic and more. It
supports body filtering, subject filtering, attachment filtering,
quarantine, white/black list, single line logging for qmail and many
features.
2005/04/27 Alberto Brealey-Guzman also
has an outgoing
IP address patch, but his uses a control file to do the
mapping.
2004/11/07 Nikola Vladov has devised a
way to link
qmail against djbdns's resolver library.
2004/10/28 Paul Jarc's realrcptto patch changes
qmail-smtpd so it uses the same tests as qmail-send to choose a .qmail
file. The email might still be bounced by the .qmail file, but if
it would bounce because there is no applicable .qmail file, then the
email is rejected in the smtp dialog.
2004/10/28 qscanq,
by Len Budney. Qscanq provides a virus-scanning wrapper for
qmail. Qscanq scans every email message submitted to qmail before
allowing it to be added to qmail's mail queue. Infected emails are
rejected, not bounced, so you won't have to deal with double-bounces
during virus outbreaks.
2004/10/18 Russ Nelson wrote qmail-dk, which is a qmail-queue
replacement that signs and verifies DomainKeys signatures. Building on Gentoo
2004/10/11
2004/10/10 Sumanth NS has a qmail + UUCP how-to.
2004/09/13 Luca Morettoni wrote qmail-rblchk,
which checks the IP address in the Received: line of an email message
on stdin against named DNSBLs.
2004/09/12 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.
2004/09/06 Jeremy Kister wrote a qmail-queue
manipulation tool.
2004/07/12 Dion Sasmito wrote a goodmailfrom
matching badmailfrom's functionality.
2004/07/12 Pawel Foremski has a qmail-smtpd plugin
system.
2004/06/30 N. Ersen Siseci wrote Zabit, a C-language qmail
content filter.
2004/06/27 ezmlm-showctl prints out the ezmlm
configuration in a readable manner.
2004/06/07 Oliver Neubauer has a validrcptto
patch, which rejects invalid addresses in the SMTP dialog. Note
that you cannot use this if you have any .qmail files ending in
-default, e.g. any ezmlm lists.
2004/06/01 Markus Stumpf has a patch for
qmail-smtpd that rejects
W32/Sober-G at the SMTP level.
2004/06/01 Jay Soffian has modified
qmail-smtpd to fork/exec
$RCPTCHECK at the RCPT TO:. $RCPTCHECK is run in the same
environment as qmail-smtpd. Additionally $SENDER is set to the
envelope from and $RECIPIENT is set to the envelope recipient (for the
current rcpt to:). Based on the return code (exit value) of
$RCPTCHECK, the rcpt to: address will either be accepted or rejected.
2004/05/28 Nagy Balazs wrote a patch to
ensure that the domain name on the envelope sender is a
valid DNS name. This is not terribly effective against spammers,
but I list it here because some people want it.
2004/05/10 Larry M. Smith has written
instructions for using qmail as a
honeypot.
2004/04/11 John R Levine has written a SMTP AUTH
patch for ofmipd in mess822-0.58.
2004/03/29 qregex provides
full regexp matching on envelope addresses.With REs (Regular
Expresions) it becomes quite easy to filter out email addresses that
contain invalid characters or simply aren't a real address. Andrew
St. Jean has added case
insensitive pattern matching and logging when a match is found.
2004/03/28 John Levine has written the
O'Reilly & Associates "owl" book on qmail (owls eat bats). More
information on the book is available on John's page.
2004/03/27 David Jonas has a patch to
rblsmtpd to let you ignore
certain A record responses from the bl lookup.
2004/03/16 Erwin Hoffmann suggests a
one-line fix to the errno compilation problem. It works for most DJB
software:
cat error.h | sed -es/^extern\ int\ errno\;/#include\ \<errno.h\>/ >error.h
Or, djb suggests that you edit conf-cc to read:
cc -O2 -include /usr/include/errno.h
2004/03/16 Tino Reichardt has a qpasswd
checkpassword.
2004/03/05 John Wiggins has a C/C++ CGI
program for the control of qmail.
2004/02/04 Christophe Saout wrote a SPF checker that runs
inside qmail-smtpd and is written using the native dns and string
functions that come with qmail.
2004/02/02 Adam Aube's block_file.pl
rejects messages using file name and/or MIME type patterns.
2004/01/28 Russell Nelson has an antivirus patch for
qmail-smtpd, with some contributions from Charles Cazabon.
2004/01/27 Charles Cazabon, Dave Sill,
Henning Brauer, Peter Samuel, and Russell Nelson have put together a netqmail-1.06 distribution of qmail. It is
comprised of qmail-1.03 plus the recommended
patches and some documentation.
2004/01/13 Frederik Vermeulen has written a
patch implementing RFC2487
(starttls) in qmail (qmail-smtpd as server, qmail-remote as
client). This means you can get SSL or TLS encrypted and
authenticated SMTP between the MTAs and between MTA and an MUA
like Netscape4.5.
2004/01/09 Philip Gladstone wrote a
delivery-time SPF
checker. More on SPF.
2004/01/02 Jean-Eudes ONFRAY wrote a rhsbl patch for tcpserver. This lets you
block or whitelist email based on the reverse-DNS hostname rather than
IP.
2003/12/20 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann has written
his own SMTP
Auth package.
2003/12/20 Erwin Hoffman's SPAMCONTROL
combines many spam control features. Includes SMTP Auth with
CRAM-MD5 support.
2003/12/09 Erwin Hoffmann has compiled a
tutorial about SMTP
Authentication (as part of my canceled Qmail Book) 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.
2003/12/03 Chris Johnson
wrote qdated to
create and verify timestamped e-mail addresses. These addresses
expire after a user-configurable period of time; any mail sent to an
expired address will bounce.
2003/11/05 Courierpasswd
allows users to to check and change their passwords using Courier
authentication modules. It can optionally read authentication tokens
from stdin and send logging information to syslog or stderr.
2003/11/02 Roberto Lacava has Italian
installation instructions for qmail on Red Hat 9.
2003/10/28 Matthew Trout checks SMTP clients
to see if they are open
relays before he will accept email from them.
2003/10/17 Alex Greg likes to see the output
of svstat expressed in dhms instead of seconds.
2003/10/10 Ian Stewart wrote qmail-logfilter,
which discards the DATA phase of an smtp session.
2003/10/09 Erwin Hoffmann wrote QMVC - Qmail Mail and
Virus Control is an unidirectional Mail Filter and Virus Scanner
for Qmail. It runs from your .qmail file.
2003/10/07 Oliver Hitz wrote a small tool to
manually test
SMTP-AUTH CRAM-MD5 authentication.
2003/10/07 Oliver Hitz authenticates
against a CDB file and works for SMTP-AUTH as well as for Courier
POP and IMAP.
2003/10/06 Michael Devogelaere's qmail-sql now includes ODBC support.
2003/09/19 Mark Willcox wrote postpop, which
is a simpler SMTP after POP solution.
2003/09/05 Russ Nelson discards
doublebounces without queuing them with his doublebounce-trim patch.
2003/09/03 Jeffrey Clement wrote a
time-limited email-address program called datedmail.
2003/09/01 Paul Gregg rejects
HELO commands whose parameter has no dot.
2003/08/26 Ricardo Oliveira and Mario Gamito
have written a qmail book in Portuguese entitled "Como
instalar um servidor completo de email".
2003/07/24 Adam Aube's chkpass.pl
authenticates using a Squid auth helper program.
2003/07/24 Insist that your local users use
only certain domain names on
their outgoing email.
2003/07/08 F-Prot supports use of the Anomy
sanitizer with qmail.
2003/06/12 Sylvestre Ledru wrote some bits on
using spam
assassin with qmail.
2003/05/29 Florian Schiessl points out his
Qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, ... Howto for Debian woody.
2003/05/28 Samuel Prakoso and Tomy and Onno
Purbo have written a qmail
book in Indonesian.
2003/05/17 David Phillips noticed that
qmail's sendmail's
-f emulation doesn't set the default for the username as sendmail
does.
2003/05/16 Erwin Hoffmann is writing a book
in German on qmail, called Qmail&co.
Unfortunately, the book has been cancelled by the publisher.
2003/05/13 J. de Boyne Pollard suggests that
you remove
the bodge that works around a BIND version 4 problem
2003/05/13 Erwin Hoffmann wrote Newanalyse, helping the
sysadmin in processing multilog logfiles.
2003/05/07 qmail ought to recognize 0.0.0.0 as a local IP
address. This
patch from Scott Gifford implements that change.
2003/05/07 Scott Gifford's moreipme
patch is available. This solves the problem seen when a host
has more IP addresses than it knows about. This happens in particular
when you have an IP masquerading load balancer in front of a host.
2003/05/02 Jeffrey Clement wrote up a Debian HOWTO on
setting up qmail, Vmailmgr, CourierIMAP, SpamAssassin, and ezmlm.
2003/05/01 Frank Niedermann has written a
HowTo install qmail on Debian
in German language.
2003/04/10 John Levine wrote a badrcptto
patch which uses CDB and logging.
2003/04/09 Andreas Mueller has compiled qmail for HP-UX.
2003/04/08 Inter7 has their own MRTG configuration
2003/04/07 Asfihani has written Installing
Qmail With vmailmgr
and vpopmail
in Indonesian language. He also covers omail admin, courier-imap
and squirrelmail.
2003/03/23 Will Harris has a patch to make
qmail fully RFC
1870 compliant, i.e. to support the ESMTP SIZE command. Erwin
Hoffman has some corrections.
2003/03/20 Kris Kelley has Gentoo
installation instructions.
2003/03/17 Qmail-popup redirects stderr to
stdout, thus making it impossible to write a wrapper around
qmail-pop3d which writes to the logfile by writing to stderr. Being a
little cleverer with the shell, you can also redirect FD 7 onto stdout
like this:
2003/03/13 Jan Knepper has a qmail virtual
domain
outgoing IP address patch, based on IP adddress.
2003/03/09 Ingo Rohloff has added SMTP
authentication support to serialsmtp..
2003/03/09 Richard Lyons points out that
multilog has filtering capabilities, see
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html. If you leave recordio in
place you can select what bits of the output to write. For example:
2003/03/05 Bruce Guenter updated his autoresponder
based on Eric's design.
2003/02/25 Mário Gamito has some Portuguese
documentation.
2003/02/18 Georg Lehner tells how to
configure Qmail with
Spamassassin.
2003/02/17 Johan Almqvist logs
badmailfrom hits.
2003/02/11 John M. Simpson is running
courier-imap under daemontools.
2003/02/04 Andreas Aardal Hanssen has
written Binc IMAP. It's
invoked just like qmail-pop3d so it fits in smoothely in a vanilla
qmail system. Works fine with vhkpwd or any checkpassword-compatible
authenticators.
2003/01/29 Net::QMTP - This
perl module implements an object oriented interface to a Quick Mail
Transfer Protocol (QMTP) client which enables a perl program to
send email by QMTP.
2003/01/29 q-sorter sorts your email
into separate inboxes.
2003/01/13 Erik Sjölund pointed out this
bug in qmail-local.
2003/01/12 The definitions of errno in qmail (and tcpserver)
do not work with the newest glibc (2.3.1). Debian and redhat are
updating to this glibc. Executables compiled with older glibc's (2.3)
abort on startup, and recompilation with 2.3.1 is not possible. Mate
Wierdl has patches for all
of djb's software. Erwin Hoffmann points out that a one-line sed
script will fix most of DJB's software. Look in the Tips section.
2003/01/08 Larry Engleman has a Qt GUI
installer
2002/12/31 Dale Woolridge, James Law, and
Moto Kawasaki's spam throttle
patch provides a method to rate limit/stutter spam (message throughput)
via a highly parameterized control interface. As of release 2.01,
tcpserver is no longer a strict requirement.
2002/12/26 Rene Schleicher has written a qmail/vpopmail-Installation
HOWTO in German.
2002/12/17 Andrew St. Jean describes his qmail
configuration and using qmail's null client, Courier IMAP, and
TMDA.
2002/12/05 LinuxMagic is porting their
Anti-Spam/Valid User checking program, magic-smtpd, a
drop-in replacement for qmail-smtpd over to opensource. Features
checking for Valid Users, Spam conditions, and smtpd RCPT-TO rate
limiting, all at the smtpd level to reduce server loads before it hits
the queue. Supports stock qmail, qmail/vpopmail, and LinuxMagic
Mailserver installs.
2002/11/29 Plácido Revilla wrote a
checkpassword that authentifies against a PHPNuke users database. This allows
administrators of these kind of portals to automatize the creation of
pop3 accounts in their system.
2002/11/06 Miguel Beccari has QmailToaster RPM
packages. Features: Mail Server (pop3, pop3-ssl, imap4, imap-ssl,
smtp, smtp-ssl), Web Administration Tools (vpopmail, vqadmin), Web
Mail Client (horde), Mailing lists(ezmlm), Autoresponder, Antispam.
2002/10/30 Ciprian has three benchmark articles
comparing sendmail, qmail, and PostFix.
2002/10/19 David Phillips has a
checkpassword which authenticates via a pop3 connection.
While this may seem counter-productive, you can use it for smtp-auth
where the smtp server does not have direct access to the user database.
2002/10/09 Han Boetes blocks sites with no
reverse dns. He uses the following tcp.smtp file. The only thing
I would do differently is to set RBLSMTPD instead of just denying the
connection.
2002/09/25 James Raftery wants the canonicalized hostname in
the logfile, so he can see the real envelope recipients of
messages after host name canonicalization. If you send a mail to me
at lecter@www.redbroock.dcu.ie, your logs will show 'to remote
lecter@www.redbrook.dcu.ie' but qmail-remote will actually use
'lecter@prodigy.redbrook.dcu.ie' in the RCPT TO command.
2002/09/24 Roger Merchberger has some
techniques to deal with double-bouncing
email.
2002/09/23 Eric M. Johnston's YAQSAP
(Yet Another qmail SMTP AUTH Patch).
2002/08/05 Gerrit Pape wrote qconfirm, a delivery
confirmation process for a mail address.
2002/08/05 Adrian Ho has increased qmail-remote's compliance with
RFC2821. Some smtp servers are now emitting 5XX responses from the
get-go, and mere RFC821 behavior doesn't deal well with them.
2002/07/29 Giacomo Cariello used to have
OpenBSD Qmail Ports.
2002/07/16 Bjoern Kalkbrenner has
improved the smtp-auth
client patch (alternate location) so it works with multiple users. This is of most
use for a desktop qmail installation which needs to relay mail through
a server that requires authentication. The original
author was Jay Soffian (documentation,
patch). Last
person to touch that patch was Robert
Sanders
2002/07/10 Marco Tizzoni has translated Life With Qmail
into Italian.
2002/07/09 Paul Niewiadomski has translated
man pages
into Polish. Actually, he's Paweł 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.
2002/07/09 Michel Morelli is running an Italian-language
list.
2002/06/21 Central Command's Vexira Antivirus
For Mail Servers(aka VAMS+I for the Integrated version) has qmail
support.
2002/06/18 Tim Deegan has an RFC1339 remote mail
check daemon that works with Maildir mailboxes.
2002/06/04 Ronald C. Rivera creates home
directories and moves email directly from
an LDIF file. It also creates the user's public_html directory
which can be used in conjunction with mod_ldap_userdir.
2002/06/04 Len Budney wrote a little C program
called safecat,
which implements DJB's maildir algorithm to copy stdin to a file in a
maildir. When exit codes are checked, as by qmail-local or fetchmail
with -w option, it should be as reliable as qmail's own maildir
delivery (which heavily influenced the safecat).
2002/05/27 There's also the qmail-verh
patch. This allows substitution of the recipient local/host parts
into the message. Useful for inserting a customized mailto: URL for
list-unsubscribe into the body of the message. Bernhard Graf has a fix for input
buffer boundary problems.
2002/05/25 Andreas Aardal Hanssen has a way
to run multiple
checkpasswords and authenticate against one, and if that
fails, then the other. If none succeed, it returns failure.
2003/02/22 André Oppermann
updated his ext-todo
patch, which solves the 'silly qmail syndrome'. That's where
qmail spends more time processing incoming email than scheduling
deliveries. You can get it with big-todo integrated as
big-ext-todo.
2002/05/01 David Phillips noticed that sendmail's -f option
sets a default From: header, and so should
qmail's emulation.
2002/05/01 Alexey Mahotkin rewrote checkpassword-pam
from scratch.
2002/04/23 Justin Hopper has a quota implementation for
QmailAdmin.
2002/04/11 Noel Mistula wrote checkhab, which checks
for HTML, attachments, and binaries in email, and blocks them.
2002/03/25 James Grinter has instructions on
using
SpamAssassin. It's a script that runs from a .qmail file.
2002/03/18 Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote ezmlm-cgi-py, a
more approachable (i.e. Python, not djb-C) version of "the Freds"
ezmlm-cgi archive formatter.
2002/02/09 Russell Nelson has a patch to reject relay probes generated by
so-called anti-spammers. These relay probes have '!', '%' and '@'
in the local (username) part of the address.
2002/02/06 EnderUNIX Team wrote spamGuard, which
scans your log files for "too much" email from a particular user, and
adds them to badmailfrom.
2002/02/05 Mark Delany wrote set_supplementary_groups, which
lets you gain group permissions for the groups you are in in
/etc/group. In particularly mailman requires this.
2002/01/23 OdeiaVir integrates virus
scanning into qmail.
2002/01/11 Bruce Guenter wrote mailfront, a package
containing customizeable network front-ends for mail servers;
specifically SMTP and POP3. Supports SMTP auth and POP3 AUTH
PLAIN and LOGIN.
2002/01/08 Wolfgang Pichler wanted graphs
from logs, so he wrote qmailalizer.
2001/12/20 Michele
Beltrame has a tool to view the qmail
queue (with colored display), view messages in it and delete
messages. It's very simple and written in Perl.
2001/12/14 Mark Delaney noted that he was getting spam with a
null envelope sender. That by itself is insufficient reason to reject
the email. However, when the spam has multiple envelope recipients,
it cannot be a bounce message. So, Charles
Cazabon wrote a patch to enforce single
recipients on bounces.
2001/12/09 The ultimate mbox2maildir has not yet been invented.
However, Robin Whittle has created another mbox2maildir.
This one can do entire directories of mboxes.
2001/11/24 Andrew Richards has a checkpassword
that wraps around Courier-IMAP's authentication for use by
qmail-pop3d.
2001/11/16 Looking for information on how to
add a
disclaimer to your outgoing email?
2001/11/13 Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote qpsmtpd, a smtp server
with filtering tools. It's written in perl.
2001/11/13 O'Shaughnessy Evans has a set of
shell scripts that comprise a spam-filtering system called "spamrule".
2001/11/06 Jay Austad has his qmqpc rotating the server list by a random
amount. This distributes the load over multiple qmqp servers.
2001/06/25 Martin Östlund has written a Swedish
qmail-howto.
2001/05/31 Scott Woods has qmail running on
a Cray. It took some patching
to make it run on UNICOS, but it's running.
2001/05/31 Qmail-VmailMgr-Courier-SquirrelMail
installation guide, written by Konstantin Riabitsev.
2001/05/31 Ismail Yenigul has written a
Turkish
qmail-howto.
2001/05/29 Peter van Dijk suggests that
you have two services running smtpd, one using recordio and the
other not. He says that it's a great diagnostic tool. Create
/service/qmail-smtpd as you would normally. Create
/service/qmail-smtpd-recordio as a copy with recordio inserted, and
logging to a separate space (be sure to chmod this logdir tight
because recordio records complete emails). Create
/service/qmail-smtpd-recordio/down. The switchover is then simply:
# svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd-recordio ; svc -d /var/service/qmail-smtpd
and viceversa.
2001/05/22 iGENUS is a chinese webmail
system for perl + qmail + vpopmail + mysql.
2001/05/06 oMail-webmail
is a simple Webmail solution for mail servers based on qmail and
optionally vmailmgr. This a GPL project, maintained by Olivier Müller. The mails are read
directly from Maildirs on the harddisk, which is much quicker than
using protocols like POP3 or IMAP. Other features includes multiple
language support (currently English, French, German and Italian),
folders and addressbook support. oMail is programmed in
Perl. Developers and translators are welcome to subscribe to the devel mailing
list.
2001/04/27 Davide Giunchi wrote qmail-masq[uerade].
It will masquerade the internal address with an external one when
sending email from local network users to the external internet users.
2001/04/08 Gnus has had native maildir support
since version 5.8. Also see nnmaildir.
2001/04/06 Mahlon Smith has written a
general new mail
checker, useful if you use the mutt MUA and procmail to filter
incoming mail to Maildirs, since there isn't a built in mechanism for
doing this from within mutt.
2001/04/06 Jesse
Sweetland has added Postgres support to his checkpassword and
qmail-getpw replacements. He calls the package sql-xpw. These differ from
Takeshi's code because his is a patch to qmail and this code is not.
2001/02/26 Klaus Reimer has code to change
the appearance of bounce
messages. Note that this has the potential to break QSBMF.
2001/02/09 And similarly Sean Cody has a
maildir patch for pine 4.33.
2001/02/06 Larry M. Smith has a vanilla checkpassword.pl.
2001/02/05 Andrew Richards has a checkpassword
for Radius, written in C. It's based around Dan's
checkpassword, and uses the Radius client library from FreeBSD, as
well as MD5, since that's how Radius encodes its data.
2001/01/22 Oliver Lehmann has written a
German FreeBSD
qmail-howto. Steven Fettig has translated Chapters 1-4 into
English.
2001/01/20 Shinya Ohira fixed a
security lapse in checkpw, which gets its password from a file in
the user's home directory, and allows both POP
and APOP authentication. Magnus Bodin has a copy if that site happens to
be unavailable.
2001/01/19 Alex Kramarov has created qmail-print-queue to print
the qmail queue contents - it runs on all messages and displayes
the from:, to: and date: headers; can also dump the full header of the
message if ran with "-h" switch (if mess822 is properly installed). It
is useful in conjunction with monitoring tools like qmail-mrtg and
others.
2001/01/19 Vmailadmin is a web
application that allow your client to administer the pop accounts in
his domain, easily and with security, without the need to contact
ISP staff.
2001/01/18 Exim has Maildir
support in its appendfile transport. Not exactly new news,
but worth mentioning.
2001/01/17 nnmaildir is a maildir
backend for Gnus.
2001/01/17 Russ Nelson updated his
changes to qmail-remote to send using
QMTP. If you wish to receive mail via qmtp, run qmtpd.
2001/01/15 Ismail Yenigul has a qmail
log analyzer tool called IsoQlog.
2001/01/14 Ward Vandewege wrote a patch
to implement badrcptto, in the
same vein as badmailfrom.
2001/01/10 Russ Nelson has a qmtpd tarball for people using
0.70 or later daemontools with qmail.
Just drop it into your /service directory, and five seconds later,
you're running qmtpd. Don't forget to set your lowest MX priority to
12801, or all your deliveries will occur using SMTP. This is a
companion to his qmail-remote patch.
2001/01/10 Mail2DB -- Store incoming mail
in a PostgreSQL database. Mail2DB is suitable
for putting in a .qmail/.forward file and will archive e-mail to a SQL
database. Currently, there is only the storage component. This was
written because somone on a LUG list expressed interest in such a
system, but he only knew PHP (which isn't an ideal language for
calling from a .qmail file ;-). Hopefully a user interface will be
forthcoming.
2001/01/07 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.
2001/01/05 Ariel Kirsman has written a
checkpassword which authenticates using an NT domain. It is derived from
code taken from squid.
2000/12/28 [news] qmail news is also
available as a news channel, and a Slashdot slashbox.
2000/12/23 Michael Elkins has a tool to synchronize a maildir with a
remote IMAP mailbox.
2002/03/31 Chris Kennedy has written the
BlackHole
spam/virus filter.
2001/03/17 Patrick contributes an xinetd configuration for qmail-pop3d.
2000/12/30 Jay Soffian has a qmail-queue
replacement to filter against DNS spamlists..
It uses Bruce Guenter's QMAILQUEUE patch.
Matching email is not rejected, but instead an X-RBL: header is added,
for filtering at the delivery layer.
2000/12/27 The qmailanalog package
analyzes qmail log files in various ways. Russ Allbery has written
tai64nfrac,
which converts the tai64n that daemontools-0.63 produces into the
fractional seconds that qmailanalog expects. Peter Samuel has
implemented the same idea as a patch
to daemontools using Dan's coding style (Jay Soffian also wrote
one substantially similar to Peter's). Finally (hopefully) John Levine
went ahead and fixed qmailanalog to accept
tai64n dates.
2000/12/14
Bruce Guenter also has written ucspi-proxy. It passes
data back and forth between two connections set up by a UCSPI server
and a UCSPI client.
2000/12/03 Jason Haar wrote Qmail-Scanner (also known
as scan4virus), which scans all gatewayed Email for certain
characteristics. It is typically used for its anti-virus protection
functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with commercial
virus scanners. but also enables a site to react to Email (at a
server/site level) that contains specific strings in particular
headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.VBS
attachments).
2000/11/08 Jon Rust wrote qrblcheck, which reads
a message on stdin, grabs the IP address from the Received lines and
checks it against five different DNS-based spamlists.
2000/10/12 Todd Underwood has written Yet Another Mailbox to Mailbox Converter.
2000/09/30 Kenji Rikitake reports that
procmail-3.15 includes support of the maildir format with no
patch. All you need to do is to add a slash to the mail folder names.
2000/09/17 oMail-admin is a PHP4-based
Web-administration solution for mail servers based on Dan
Bernstein's qmail and Bruce Guenter's vmailmgr.
2000/09/15 Dru Nelson has an incoming message
filter
2000/09/15 Dru Nelson has an
administrator's program to remove
queued mail that has a certain string in it.
2000/09/14 Matthias Andree has a patch to Dan's checkpassword
that allows checkpasswd to use an arbitrary base
directory for finding Maildirs
2000/09/14
Matthias Andree has a patch to allow qmail's sendmail wrapper to ignore the -N dsn
option that sendmail has, for compatibility with MUAs that use the
-N dsn switch (mutt can do)
2000/08/27
Dag Wieers wants to see all messages that are delivered to his
domain but were bounced because the user or alias does not exist. Since
you cannot forward and pipe in the same dot-qmail he found the following
solution to be his most simple option, .qmail-default:
2000/08/12
Bruce Guenter wrote his own implementation of the mini-qmail idea,
only his (nullmailer)
has a queue for more reliablity. It supports SMTP and QMQP, so it's a
drop-in replacement for qmail-qmqpc.
2000/08/10 Russell Nelson and Magnus
Bodin have conspired to write some scripts and documentation to throw
information about qmail into
mrtg.
2000/08/10 Dan's rblsmtpd blocks spam using the RBL and other
DNS-based lists. Because of the size of the RSS zone, they have
removed the necessary TXT records that rblsmtpd relies on. Alan Curry
has a patch to rblsmtpd to make it work with
A records.
2000/07/28
Gerrit Pape has written man pages for ucspi-tcp-0.88,
daemontools-0.70,
and daemontools-0.76
to complement Dan's online HTML documentation.
2000/07/26 Bruce Guenter wrote qlogtools, a set of tools
useful in analyzing or producing logs from qmail and other packages.
2000/07/21
Philip Jacob wrote up some instructions on
using checkpoppasswd to create virtual users on virtual hosts,
accessing their mail via pop3.
2000/07/21 Mikko Hänninen has a patch to Mutt which converts GMT dates in the
header into local time.
2000/07/20
Dave Kitabjian has some diagnostic suggestions for various qmail
problems on his Q-Cards page.
2000/07/18 Mirko Zeibig has an RPM with fastforward
with a .qmail-default and a "standard" /etc/aliases-file in it.
2000/07/18 Chris Dent wrote Qmail::Queue.pm.
2000/07/18 The Clarkson University Unix Team has an xbiff and from.
2000/06/22
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".
2000/06/21 A text-only biff by David Gerber.
2000/06/19
Interestingly, William Baxter announced ucspi-ipc
and Bruce Guenter announced ucspi-unix within two days
of each other. Same idea, different implementations.
2000/06/14
Jim Simmons points out that you can stop linuxconf from creating a
potential security hole by removing the /usr/sbin/sendmail line from
/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm. If you don't do this, linuxconf will
change /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to running suid.
2000/05/19
AMaViS is A Mail Virus Scanner.
2000/05/19
Kaspersky Lab includes qmail support for their AVP anti-virus program.
2000/04/18 William E. Baxter has released qtools, a
suite of utilities for use in .qmail files. The tools support
applying a filter to a message body, message head, or entire message;
conditional delivery of a message to a Maildir; and configuration of
simple autorepliers.
2000/04/13 Russell Nelson has a program called no-alternative, which picks the text/plain
part out of a MIME multipart/alternative message, and forwards it to
$USER-alternative.
2000/04/11
Sam Varshavchik has a local delivery agent called Maildrop that has
a custom filtering language more readable than procmail's.
2003/02/16 Chris Hardie has
updated his qmail anti-spam
howto.
2000/02/23
takeshi@SoftAgency.co.jp wrote MySQL +
QMAIL, including qmail-getpw-mysql and checkpassword-mysql, to
look up users in a mysql database. Iain Patterson has
improved on MySQL +
QMAIL.
2000/01/25 The prolific Bruce Guenter has written qmail-qfilter, which is
a front end for qmail-queue that can send the body of the message
through one or more filters, such as qmail-inject or new-inject.
2000/01/14 Jeff Hayward has a patch to qmail-local (which arguably belongs
down below in the patches section except that Paul Gregg's quota check
was already here) which treats quota
exceeded as a permanent error, bouncing the message back to the
sender.
2000/01/10 Vern Hart doesn't like a pile of .qmail files in his home
directory. So he uses users/assign to put them into a subdirectory:
=vern:vern:2244:18:/home/vern:::
+vern-:vern:2244:18:/home/vern:s/::
This puts .qmail in his home directory but everything
else is in .qmails/. This changes ~/.qmail-foo to
~/.qmails/foo and really cleans up his home.
2000/01/09 [Anand
Buddhdev] wrote turnmail, modified by
Russell Nelson for publication here, which wraps around qmail-pop3d
and triggers a serialmail delivery to the connecting host whose user
just authenticated themselves. Or, a Unix system can use fetchmail,
getmail
or an NT system pullmail.
2000/01/08 qmail-lint-0.55
checks your qmail configuration for common problems. Prints warning
or error messages to stdout.
1999/12/26 Dan's updated FAQ is also available in other file
formats, and in Spanish.
1999/12/21
Jonathan Kamens has written a replacement for the Emacs "movemail" program, which understands how to read
mail from a qmail-style maildir.
1999/12/09 Jonathan I. Kamens has the latest and arguably the greatest
entry in the Maildir-xbiff category. The
comment at the top of the script explains why this one is better.
1999/12/08
Bruce
Guenter has a qmail
RPM which automatically applies a number of patches found here and
which comes with some scripts.
1999/12/01
Peter Green has some code to Archive and process log files
generated by qmail-send and qmail-smtpd.
1999/12/01 Russell
Nelson's qmail-popbull
program lets you create bulletins which get added to a user's
mailbox as they log in. Equivalent to an all-customers mailing list,
but takes up much less resources, and lets you withdraw bulletins.
1999/11/19
Tong has a PostgreSQL
checkpassword.
1999/11/17
Sam Varshavchik wrote a Maildir-only IMAP server
called Courier IMAP.
2010/05/15 Cristiano Venturini has
developed Qmailsuite to
manage accounts of QMail Ldap Server written in Python (command line)
and Php5 (web application).