vpopmail

vpopmail (vchkpw) is a collection of programs and a library to automate the creation and maintenance of virtual domain email configurations for qmail installations using either a single UID/GID or any valid UID/GID in /etc/passwd with a home directory

Features are provided in the library for other applications which need to maintain virtual domain email accounts. vpopmail supports named or IP-based domains. It works with vqadmin, qmailadmin, vqregister, sqwebmail, and courier-imap. It supports MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, LDAP, and file-based (DJB constant database) authentication.

It supports SMTP authentication combined with the qmail-smtp-auth patch. It supports user quotas and roaming users (SMTP relay after POP authentication).

Features:

• Support for 1 to 23 million virtual email domains using a "grow as it goes" balenced directory tree.
• Support for 1 to 23 million email users per domain using the same balenced tree structure.
• Automates all qmail configurations into handy and scriptable command line programs and documented API library calls.
• Automates Unix user/group/other permissioning of directories and files.
• Supports authenticated relay control of your qmail smtp server.
• Virtual email file/directories can be assigned to any user/group or do the default vpopmail/vchkpw 89/89.
• Does not require email user accounts in /etc/passwd
• Supports name or IP based virtual domains
• Optionally automates support for:
• Storing clear text passwords to help tech support workers
• Record last authentication and automates deletion of stale accounts.
• Storing alias/forwards in mysql or oracle
• Configurable logging based on real world admin's comments and requirements.
• Support for Mysql, Oracle, PostgreSQL, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow LDAP, Sybase, and default cdb authentication storage.
• Delivers directly to Maildir for use with qmail-pop3d, .qmail files or any other Maildir program.
• No need to have hundreds of .qmail files for virtual domains. Each domain gets it's own directory under vpopmail user with a separate password file for each domain.
• Documented command line programs that can be used in scripts or for remote admin.
• Documented C library for all vpopmail features and transactions.

What is new in this release:

• Updated vlimits_read_vlimits_file to be much more efficient
• Added vusage client API to libvpopmail
• Added vusage daemon
• Updated quota code to talk to vusage daemon if available
• Fixed some backfill patch compilation issues
• Updated maildir_to_email to support paths that end in /Maildir as well as /Maildir/
• Added LDAP valias support
• Updated vusage API to return counts for both users and domains
• Updated domain quota enforcement to work when using vusage
• Re-enabled --enable-domainquotas (with warnings)

Requirements:

• qmail