Secure Email Server On Centos   June 4th, 2010

Qmailtoaster is a project whose purpose is to install Qmail with RPMs on RPM based Linux and these RPMs are source RPMs. The advantage of Qmailtoaster is that it contains all patches needed for Qmail for example domainkeys etc.

Included Featureset by Qmailtoaster

  • Source RPM packages easily rebuilt for multiple distributions
  • SMTP with SMTP-AUTH, TLS, REMOTE-AUTH
  • DomainKeys, SPF “Sender Policy Framework” and SRS “Sender Rewriting Scheme”
  • Integrated SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Simscan
  • Warlord virus and worm loader realtime MIME signature scanning
  • CHKUSER 2.0 functions for qmail-smtpd
  • Qmail-Tap provides email archive capability
  • Virtual Domains and Virtual Users using MySQL
  • Autoresponder for vacation/away from office messages
  • Integrated Mailing List (ezmlm)
  • Web-based email system using Squirrelmail
  • Web-based administration tools
  • POP3, POP3-SSL, IMAP and IMAP-SSL
  • Submission port (587) allows roaming users to skip RBL checks and port 25 blocks
  • eMPF patch for advanced policy control over email

Qmailtoaster has support for RHEL/CentOS (3.x, 4.x, 5.x , Fedora, Suse, Mandriva. We are going to install Qmailtoaster for CentOS 5.x

Prerequisites: Install Centos 5 base system, remaining packages and dependencies will be installed automatically with qmailtoaster scripts.

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