Following my previous post about new qmail ebuilds, i have started a clean install for one of our mail servers at work and already fixed some bugs, mainly in the webapp integration for vqadmin and the dovecot-dspam plugin that has been added to portage recently. Again, these updated ebuilds can be found in my overlay.

During the installation i have also rewritten most parts of the old netqmail/vpopmail guide. It now uses dovecot instead of courier, has a section aboult spam filtering with RBL, ClamAV, DSpam and SpamAssassin and explains howto setup vqadmin/qmailadmin.

The first draft of the qmail guide can be found here.

Due to the huge amount of code duplication and open bugs i have started to clean up several qmail related ebuilds. The most important change is the qmail.eclass which simplifies installation of different qmail variants (netqmail, qmail-ldap, qmail-mysql, mini-qmail) and provides some functions and variables for qmail add-ons.

Some updated ebuilds can be found in my overlay until they are ready for the live portage tree.

The following bugs have been adressed:

• daemontools
  - the daemontools.eclass provides standardized installation for supervise scripts for the daemontools package. supervise scripts are installed to /var/lib/supervise now. You have to change your symlinks
• qmailadmin/vqadmin
  - the qmailadmin and vqadmin ebuilds have been updated to work with webapp-config.
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  - ezmlm-idx-mysql and ezmlm-idx-pgsql have been updated and integrated to ezmlm-idx and can be enabled with use flags now.
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  - a new virtual/checkpassword has been introduced to combine all checkpwd compatible applications
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  - you can now use qmail's pop3d with ssl support using ucspi-ssl
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  - man-pages are now installed by ucspi-tcp directly
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  - qmail does not install man-pages related to internal libraries anymore
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  - vpopmail has been updated to the latest version and a supervise script has been provided for vpopmaild
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If you feel like testing, checkout my overlay (yes, it is in layman-global.txt), and report any problems directly to me via IRC or mail.

Enjoy.