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Welcome to QmailToaster's Wiki page. (Traducción al español aquí.) *under construction
If you have a question, use the mailing list! Questions will not be answered on the wiki!
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[edit] Background
[edit] Introduction
Welcome to the QmailToaster wiki. QmailToaster is designed to be very stable and easy enough to install that even an inexperienced Linux user can install, operate, and maintain a full blown Qmail MTA.
Everyone is encouraged to find ways to improve QmailToaster and to pass their knowledge on to others via the wiki and the email list.
This wiki is maintained by Jake Vickers, Eric Shubes and the rest of the QmailToaster community as a means of providing a centralized location for assisting all QmailToaster users.
The spanish translation is maintained by Guillermo Villasana Cardoza and Anatoly Alexei Pedemonte Ku
[edit] History
QmailToaster was conceived by Miguel Beccari in June 2002. At the time, Miguel was an IT for Clikka.Com in Udine Italy. Miguel's goals were to provide a very stable rpm based Qmail MTA, and to build a "QmailToaster" community of users to support and develope the QmailToaster project.
Since October 2003, Nick Hemmesch, with the help of many others, has maintained and hosted QmailToaster.
For details on the evolution of the various QMailToaster packages, see the Change Logs.
[edit] In The News
January 5, 2007 QMail-Toaster - The easy way to setup a full featured mail server (part 1) by Jake Vickers at LinuxQuestions.org DENNISKA November 29, 2005 Qmail Toaster makes mail server setup easy by Aditya Nag at Linux.com
[edit] Affirmations
One of the stated goals of the QMT project is to make it easy enough to set up a full-blown qmail MTA that a Linux newbie could run one of these rigs. Well, I am one of those guys. I am windows-free at home for a year now, yet cert-less, class-less, clue-less and possessing only a rudimentary understanding of mail delivery. Despite that, I have run my company's mail successfully since 04/2006 on a 'toaster', learning as I go.
-- Toast-mister
We have run our email services using QMail-Toaster for years. It has been a solid choice and easily maintained and upgraded. We have also evaluated other mail service packages to stay current and would not think about switching. Thanks QMT for being competent and diligent in your efforts!
I've just finished a pretty painless qmailtoaster installation on CentOS 5.4 and wanted to thank all the people who maintain, support and contribute to this great set of programs and especially the qmailtoaster website and -wiki.
I switched over from qmailrocks (this is, I completely deleted my qmr-installation and started over from scratch), because on one hand qmr seems to be a bit outdated, but on the other hand I'm not enough of a C-programmer to implement all of the necessary patches and do a source installation.
So at this point I just wanted to tell you, how much I appreciate all of your work and effort.
Having become disillusioned with Qmailrocks , as it is not supported as well as I would like, I searched the web and came across Qmail-Toaster. I installed Qmail-Toaster on CentOS 5.3 and it was one of the easiest installs I have ever done. This program was so good, I felt the need to support it, so I became a subscriber and joined the forum.
Since then I have l learned a lot about the program and how to improve my installations. On a number of occasions, I have been able to put an issue to the forum and receive the answers that I need in a matter of hours. I have also been able to support others.
I have now installed Qmail-Toaster in 4 sites internationally, with another 4 potential sites coming. All installed sites are working well and are easy to maintain, so I thank Eric, Jake and all of those other users for their support and an excellent version of Qmail.
[edit] FAQs
[edit] Additional Resources
You have found the wiki, congratulations. There is a lot of good information here. There is also a mailing list you can join and a searchable archive. Many questions have been answered in the archive. It is another invaluable resource for a first-timer if you do some searching there.
There is a good graphic titled THE BIG Qmail PICTURE available in several formats that explains how qmail works. The author does not indicate that is free to distribute, however it is free for personal use. Get a copy for yourself, as it is a handy reference.
Also grab a copy of Sills' Life with qmail in whatever format you choose. It too is a valuable reference.
For those that need/want commercial support, there are some companies that provide consulting services for QMail-Toaster:
Jake Vickers of Vickers Consulting Group, LLC 407-209-3396 Florida 336-506-6697 North Carolina (jake@v2gnu.com or jake@vickersconsulting.com) Providing support, installs, customization, high availability systems, clusters and zend support for the East Coast. Able to work remotely on systems anywhere in the world. Hosted solutions available, as well as server hardware with mail server installs performed during assembly.
Erik Espinoza of ForceNetworks, LLC 877-367-2302 (espinoza-qtdev@forcenetworks.com) Providing support, installation, customization, high availability clustering and more. Operating in the Greater LA and SF Metropolitan area and available for remote work.
[edit] Installation
[edit] General Information
What does QmailToaster require?
Dependencies Required for QmailToaster Install
What patches are included with QmailToaster?
Patches included with QmailToaster
[edit] CentOS
CentOS 4.3, i386 & x86_64
CentOS 4.3 QmailToaster Install
CentOS 4.4, i386 & x86_64
CentOS 4.4 QmailToaster Install
CentOS 5, i386 & x86_64
[edit] Fedora Core
Fedora Core 5, i386 & x86_64
Fedora Core 5 QmailToaster Install
[edit] Mandriva
Mandriva 2006.0, i586 & x86_64
Mandriva 2006.0 QmailToaster Install
[edit] openSuSE
openSuSE 10.1, i586 & x86_64
SuSE 10.1 QmailToaster Install
openSUSE 11.0, i586
openSUSE 11.0 QmailToaster Install
OpenSUSE 11.1, i586 / i686
OpenSUSE 11.1 QmailToaster Install
[edit] Configuration
[edit] QmailToaster-Plus
[edit] Backup and Restore
[edit] Upgrading
[edit] Troubleshooting
[edit] User Tips & Tricks
"Users helping users" is the theme here. This is the place for tips that don't necessarily revolve around the technical aspects of the qmail-toaster install or configuration-to-get-it-working. Anything you have had to *tweak* for your toaster from the default install might be of use for another toaster user. Help out the community by posting your *tweak*.
[edit] Change Logs
[edit] Migration
[edit] Migrating from QmailToaster
[edit] Migrating from non-toaster qmail
[edit] Migrating from Sendmail
[edit] Migrating from Procmail
(to be developed)
[edit] Migrating from IMail
[edit] Migrating from qmail that using vpasswd
[edit] Modifications
[edit] Replacing Courier IMAP with Dovecot IMAP
[edit] Wish List
Have you found a patch, or know of some free software you'd like to see included with the Qmail-Toaster? Be sure to visit and update this page with your request! The developers do monitor this page.
[edit] QMT-ISO
[edit] Virtual QMT
[edit] Development
This area is for developers to use for documentation related to development.