Denying bad DNS HELO/EHLOs
[If you followed the 'quick configuration' based on the config-all script, this feature was already configured for you at that time with the default settings.] Changelog Jan 8, 2026 (v. 10.0.1)- dropped PCRE dependency Feb 9, 2025- clang compat- dropped I and V options Aug...
daemontools
More info here: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html Original author: D.J. Bernstein github version: 0.83 daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. It monitors qmail services and saves error messages to one or more logs. Changelog Jan 5, 2026 (v0.83)This release doesn't add any new feature nor fixes...
Wrapper scripts for LXC unprivileged containers
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog A common use of the LXC containers is to isolate services like...
Converting a Linux installation to Slackware in an OVHcloud server
This article explains how to convert a given Linux distribution to a Slackware one in an OVHcloud server. I wrote in the past an article about doing the same for OVH kimsufi. It is inspired by the Slackware wiki page Install Slackware...
SQL valias with sieve solution for qmail. New features and Roundcube plugin
Changelog Mar 29 , 2025 (vpopmail v5.6.8)- defaultdelivery feature (--enable-defaultdelivery) changes:* vdelivermail is installed by default in .qmail-default of newly created domains with option 'delete' as in the previous version.* if no user's valiases and no .qmail are found, then the message...
Email Address Internationalization for qmail. MAV from chkuser modified accordingly
We now have support for EAI (RFC 5336 SMTP Email Address Internationalization), as I accomodated the patch of Arnt Gulbrandsen into my qmail distribution (Nov 03, 2024 and later versions). This means that from now on addresses containing UTF8 characters like...
Dovecot vpopmail-auth driver removal. Migrating to the SQL driver
Those who are still using the Dovecot's vpopmail auth driver should consider a migration to another backend, as on January 4, 2021 dovecot-2.3.13 was released and the vpopmail auth driver removed (more info here). I'll show below how to support domain aliases...
Natting between host and LXC containers
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog Here is a quick example of a natting tool, that you...
