You will need to add your domains to the /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
file in the following format as is normal with qmail and VMailMgr.
domain1.com:user1
For more detailed setup and config documentation visit the Qmail website
http://www.qmail.org and the VMailMgr website http://www.vmailmgr.org
By default qmail uses checkpassword for authentication, to tell Qmail
to use VMailMgr for authentication type the following command:
echo checkvpw > /var/qmail/control/checkpassword |
Copy the VMailMgr auth libs to courier's directory.
If you installed from RPM, then the vmailmgr-courier-imap RPM will have done this for you.
Otherwise use this command:
cp /usr/bin/authvmailmgr /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/ |
Edit /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd
and add authvmailmgr as the only entry in AUTHMODULES
For more detailed setup and config documentation visit the Courier-imap
website http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/
With the user account that will be managing the domain go to their home dir
and type:
This will setup the users home dir with the necessary structure to handle
incoming email. You will probably want to create a email account by typing
For more detailed setup and config documentation visit the VMailMgr website http://www.vmailmgr.org
Starting the Qmail daemon. Qmail installs itself to autostart by some mysterious (to me) way.
If you like init scripts you can get Larry Doolittle's (ldoolitta at ajlab.org)
init.d script at http://qmail.area.com/init.d-script
If you have the Larry's init.d script just do this.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start |
Start VMailMgr daemon
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmailmgrd start |
Start Courier-imap damon
/etc/rc.d/init.d/courier-imap start |
Qmail and the Maildirs may cause some email apps that run locally to
not work. Visit the Qmail website http://www.qmail.org for details
on email apps that have been patched to work with Maildirs.
Courier-imap is not as widely used as Cyrus or UWash imap servers.
As such, you may suffer from minor incompatibilities. Courier-imap is
extremely well written, and tries to comply with the imap definition
even if it means some imap clients wont work well. For details visit
the Courier-imap website http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/.
With the solution you should now have setup you will need to know that user accounts will be user at domain.com
Netscape does not like this, so for netscape use user:domain.com
I would like to suggest that you also checkout phpGroupWare at http://www.phpgroupware.org.
I have built in support for vmailmgr into it already and it can give you an end result of a full Groupware solution to fend of MS Exchange/Outlook or Lotus Domino.
If you decide to use a web based mail client, you will probably want to adjust courier-imaps MAXPERIP setting. By default it is 4, which is a bit low.
Bump it up to something more sensible, like 10 - 50. Otherwise our webmail users will have problems connecting. This setting is in /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd.
Im tired, and wonder if anyone will ever use this, but I'm happy its done.
I'm sure if you have read this far your tired too. Well, all I can hope is
that you have Qmail, VMailMgr and Courier-imap working. If so, Enjoy!
If not, bummer!
O.K. readers, you're done for today. Feel free to send me your
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