qmail

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 /etc/aliases;
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;