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qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for UNIX which replaces Sendmail. qmail uses SMTP (the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). It is easier to use, modular, has many addons, fast and secure.

- www.qmail.org - www.qmail.org/top.html -
- www.ru.qmail.org - Russian site ( install, information, FAQ, misc )
- www.qmail.org/man/ - man pages

- www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html - Life with qmail - by Dave Sill, 2001
- www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/best-of-qmail.html - Archives of the best-of-qmail mailing list
- www.nrg4u.com/ - The big qmail picture - print 4 pages of diagrams (PDF)
 

- www.ezmlm.org - Mail-List-Manager based on qmail (FAQ - http://ezmlm.org/faq-0.40/index.html).
 
A number of large Internet sites are using qmail. Here are some (from qmail.org site):

Hotmail's outgoing mail (although Microsoft thinks they're going to transition to W2K), USA.net's outgoing email, Address.com, Rediffmail.com (10M users, adding 30K users/day), Colonize.com (sending 12M opt-in emails/day), Yahoo! mail, Network Solutions, MessageLabs (searching 20M emails/week for malware), listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (a big listserv hub, using qmail since 1996), Ohio State (biggest US University), onelist.com (which has merged with egroups, another big free mailing list service), Listbot, USWest.net (Western US ISP), RIPE, Matchlogic, Telenordia, gmx.de (German ISP), NetZero (free ISP), Critical Path (email outsourcing service w/ 15M mailboxes), PayPal/Confinity, Hypermart.net, Casema, Pair Networks, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, and vuurwerk.nl. 

 
qmail & ezmlm were written by D. J. Bernstein, 
an Associate Professor 
in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science 
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

- http://cr.yp.to/djb.html  - home page
- http://cr.yp.to/software.html - numerous software by D.J.Bernstein
- http://cr.yp.to/lists.html - mailing lists

- http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html - qmail page
- http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html - FAQ (see also http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/solutions.html )
- http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures.html - The qmail pictures

- http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html - 

 
misc home - top of the page -

- http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html -
- http://russnelson.com - http://www.crynwr.com - Russ Nelson

- http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/qmail/qmail-remove/ - qmail-remove - to remove emails from the queue if they match a string, they are moved to a temporary directory.
- http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/ - mailing list archives
- http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/ - search engine for archive
- http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/best-of-qmail.html - archives
- http://www.egroups.com/list/djb-qmail/?refstop=1 -
- http://msgs.securepoint.com/qmail/ -
- http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html - Adam McKenna's HOWTO.
- http://qmail.faqts.com - searcheable database of qmail knowledge

 
installation home - top of the page -

recommended way - from scratch using the source code tarball, not a Red Hat "RPM" or other "self-installing" bundle. You will need a complete C development system including a compiler, system header files, and libraries.
Download:  http://cr.yp.to/software.html
   qmail - ftp://cr.yp.to/software/qmail-1.03.tar.gz
   ucspi-tcp - ftp://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
   daemontools - ftp://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.70.tar.gz