Syron Qmail

About

Syron Qmail is a distribution based on Netqmail which itself is based on Qmail by D. J. Bernstein. Syron Qmail tries to unify several public available patches to include almost all modern mail server features into qmail. The current problem with a qmail installation is the need to apply several patches which are in some cases completely incompatible (e.g. qmail-sql vs. the rest). Why this may be alright for most qmail administrators, it is confusing for beginners and even experience people to get a running qmail with all the features that a modern mail server should have. While there are several distributions out there which provide such a feature rich qmail, this distribution relies on the patches of the qmail community only without using script languages or other technics to extend qmail. This distribution uses these already existing patches and unifies them into one, doing only minor, compatible adjustments to harmonize the running of all patches in one qmail system. No other language then C is used and because of the unification philosophy, syron qmail is offered in two version as distribution package including netqmail and all the used patches (the same way netqmail does it) and as patch only package.

Patches

	netmail 1.05
                by Charles Cazabon, Dave Sill, Henning Brauer, Peter Samuel, and Russell Nelson
                http://www.netqmail.org/
        qmail-sql-0.26pre4 for netqmail 1.05
                by Michael Devogelaere
                http://qmail-sql.digibel.be/
        tls-smtpauth-20040207 for netqmail 1.05
                by Bill Shupp which is based on Frederik Vermulen's TLS patch (20040120) and
                Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP-AUTH (0.4.2)
                http://shupp.org/
        big-ext-todo-20030101
                a combination of Dave Smith's big-todo and ext-todo by Claudio Jeker and Andre Oppermann
                http://qmail.mirrors.space.net/big-todo.103.patch,http://www.nrg4u.com/
        big-concurrency
                by Johannes Erdfelt
                http://qmail.mirrors.space.net/big-concurrency.patch
        oversize DNS packets
                by Christopher K. Davis
                http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
        outgoingip
                by Andy Repton
                http://qmail.mirrors.space.net/outgoingip.patch
        quotas permanent bounce
                by Jeff Hayward
                http://qmail.mirrors.space.net/qmail-1.03-quotas-1.1.patch
        tarpitting
                by Chris Johnson
                http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.html

For reason why a specific patch is include look here.

Sourceforge

Todo

compiling script (it would be nice to have a configure-style script)
test installation on other platforms then Linux
INSTALL file
sample qmail start scripts
include database layout for mysql
example configuration for courier-imap

Copyrights

Notes about copyrights can be found here

Syron Qmail has been developed by Kevin Schmidt (kevin.schmidt@thefox.de).