Vpopmail Explained

VPopMail is an open-source GPL software package used for managing virtual e-mail domains and non-password e-mail accounts on e-mail servers. It was originally developed by Inter 7.^[1]

Features

• Support for 1 to 23 million virtual e-mail domains using a "grow as it goes" balanced directory tree
• Support for 1 to 23 million e-mail users per domain using the same balanced tree structure
• Automating e-mail configurations into command line programs that can be used for scripts and documented API library calls
• Automating Unix user/group/other permissions of directories and files
• Authenticated relay control of e-mail SMTP servers
• Supports name or IP-based virtual domains
• Configurable logging
• 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, files or any other Maildir program
• Unique domains for each directory under vpopmail user with a Unique password files for each domain
• Documented command line programs that can be used in scripts or for remote admin
• Documented C library for vpopmail features and transactions
• Daemon that manages mail accounts via TCP/IP control port

Operating system requirements

The minimum operating system requirement for vpopmail is

• FreeBSD
• Linux
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• Solaris
• Tru64
• HP-UX
• UnixWare

External links

• sourceforge page
• project homepage

Notes and References

1. Book: Levine, John . qmail: Managing Unix-Based Mail Systems . O'Reilly Media . 2004 . 9781565926288 . 147 . en.