Mail Toaster FAQ

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General Info

• advice for big servers
• what applications are installed
• queue info
• qmail-notify
• where can I find old versions
• how much mail is too much in a mailbox?
• multilog date stamps
• All about relaying
• message routing
• submitting patches

Setup (How do I...)

• Hardware Recommendations
• proper sizing of disk partitions
• use a signed SSL certificate
• configure a firewall
• set up a secondary MX
• publish ezmlm list archives
• save a copy of all messages
• deliver mail to mail.example.com
• configure Thunderbird
• configure Mail.app
• run Mail Toaster in a FreeBSD jail
• avoid rejecting users authenticating on port 587
• automatically report spamtrap spam to Razor
• Configure Squirrelmail to Store Prefs and Address Books in Mysql

Management

• email domain management
• old message expiration
• logs
• migrate to new server
• starting or stopping qmail
• how do I block abusive users?
• how do I survive a joe-job attack?
• blocking mail to bogus users
• Populating /var/qmail/control/badhelo

Upgrading

• hard drive upgrade
• migrating to Mail Toaster

Troubleshooting

• mail isn't coming in
• mua related (pop, imap, webmail, etc)
• authdaemond fails until it has been restarted
• courier authdaemon times out after 8 hours?
• OpenSSL errors?
• random authentication failures
• Authenticated Email Sending?
• where are my nightly reports going?
• Outlook/OE fail to authenticate on port 465/587
• SpamAssassin reports "R/O: tie failed: Permission denied" in sendlog
• testing email - various ways