qmail HOWTO - Chapter 3 - Administrationr of the Mail System

The administration of your mail server will now be explained.  The creation
and administration of domains, users and also mailing lists are covered here. 
If you are planning on using one of the web interfaces found either in this
document or elsewhere, you may skip this chapter.



3.1 vpopmail



A domain is created by:



/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain
domain1.tld



If you want a second domain to have exactly the same users as the first one,
so that mail goes to user1@domain1.tld and user1@domain2.tld, you need to create
a so-called "alias domain."



/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain
domain1.tld domain2.tld



Users are created with:



/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vadduser
user1@domain1.tld



Users are removed with:



/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdeluser
user1@domain1.tld



To change the password of a user:



/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vmoduser
-e cryptedpassword user1@domain1.tld



3.2 autorespond



In order to configure an "away" message, the incoming email needs
to be directed through an autoresponder.  In order to configure this, you
will need to enter the following commands (we are assuming that the email account
of the user for whom you wish to configure the autoresponder is user1@domain1.tld).



cd /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/user1



printf "%s%s%s\n%s" '| /usr/local/bin/autorespond 86400 3' \

      '/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/user1/vacation/message'
\

      '/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/user1/vacation'
\

      '/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/user1/Maildir/'
> .qmail



Now you must create the message that the sender shall receive.

The message does not have any text to it yet.  The following is an example
of what you could use as a text in /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/user1/vacation/message:



      From:
user1@domain1.tld

      Subject:  Thanks for your email



      I just received your email.  I am currently
on vacation

      and because of this will not be able to respond
to your

      email.  Please be patient.  I will
be available again

      on 2/19/2009.



      Warm Regards,

      User1



3.3 ezmlm-idx



A moderated list with the name "TEST" and whose moderator address
is "user1@domain1.tld" is likewise created thusly:



cd /usr/local/vpopmail/domains



ezmlm-make -rdug -5 user1@domain1.tld /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/TEST
\



    /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/.qmail-TEST
TEST domain1.tld



ezmlm-sub /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/TEST user1@domain1.tld



ezmlm-sub /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/TEST/digest user1@domain1.tld



ezmlm-sub /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain1.tld/TEST/mod user1@domain1.tld



chown -h vpopmail.vchkpw ./domain1.tld/.qmail-TEST*



chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw ./domain1.tld/TEST