Qmailbasic component

                                       QMAIL

Q. What is Qmail and why should I use it?

Ans: Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts.

It offers POP3, and IMAP (with the help of Courier-IMAP) so that you can use any mail client you prefer.

Q. Component of Qmail ?

Ans: 1. pop

2. Curior Imap

3. Ldap (vmail)

4. Vpop mail

5. qmail scanner

POP==> A qmail POP3 service handles incomming POP3 connections. It runs qmail-popup under tcpserver, uses a password checker such as checkpassword to do authentication, uses qmail-pop3d to handle POP3 transactions, and uses multilog to store log messages. Both tcpserver and multilog are supervised.

CURIOR IMAP==> A server that provides IMAP access to Maildir mailboxes. This IMAP server does NOT handle traditional mailbox files (/var/spool/mail, and derivatives), it was written for the specific purpose of providing IMAP access to maildirs.

LDAP (VMAIL)==> LDAP means Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP is a way to make certain kinds of information available across a network. In this setup the information is user logins - their passwords, user IDs, and various details.

VPOP MAIL==> vpopmail is a set of API that manages virtual user accounts on a qmail system, and handles delivery for these virtual users. The command-line utilities, and Qmailadmin all use the vpopmail API, provided by the vpopmail library to manage the system.

QMAIL SCANNER==> "Qmail-Scanner is an addon that enables a qmail email server to scan all gateway-ed email for certain characteristics (i.e. a content scanner). It is typically used for its anti-virus protection functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with commercial virus scanners, but also enables a site (at a server/site level) to react to email that contains specific strings in particular headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.VBS attachments). It also can be used as an archiving tool for auditing or backup purposes.

Q. How to manage qmail with GUI ?

Ans: phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.