Note: the Helios qmail project is currently unmaintained, what means it may contain unpatched bugs and security holes. You won't also receive any support from past project developers.

Developers needed! If you would like to continue the Helios qmail project, please contact Pawel Foremski

About

Helios qmail is an advanced and feature-rich distribution of qmail based on qmail-sql project. It has been designed to make builiding reliable, efficient and top-integrated qmail systems easy.

qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent (MTA) written by D. J. Bernstein. For more information on qmail see qmail.org site.

qmail-sql project by Michael Devogelaere aims to add MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC database functionality to qmail for:

• passwd lookups
• homedir, uid and gid lookups
• quota management
• virtual domain management (locals, rcpthosts and virtualdomains files are no longer necessary)
• simple dotqmails: contents of .qmail files are read from database

For more information on qmail-sql see it`s home page.

For Helios qmail features see Helios qmail manual.

Helios qmail is licensed on GNU GPL, but because it comes with qmail source code bundled, which is not licensed on GPL, you cannot make binary packages of it. See file called COPYING in Helios qmail package for details.

The original author of Helios qmail is Pawel Foremski. It was also maintained and developed by Christian Löschenkohl.

Documentation

Helios qmail installation guide

Available formats:

• HTML, one page
• DocBook

Helios qmail manual

Available formats:

• HTML, one page
• DocBook

Helios qmail FAQ

Available formats:

• HTML, one page
• DocBook

Links

• http://www.qmail.org/top.html - qmail home page
• http://qmail-sql.digibel.be/ - qmail-sql home page
• http://www.bincimap.org/ - BINC IMAP home page
• http://pjf.asn.pl/ - original author`s home page

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