Qmailadmin allows virtual domain users to configure mail boxes for their domains. The only drawback of qmailadmin is that the created mailboxes do not taken on the ownership of the virutal domain settings. Qmailadmin is going to provide us with a nice web based interface for administering mail accounts once they are setup through Vpopmail (or Vqadmin). From Qmailadmin we can create mailboxes, aliases, fowards, mail robots, mailing lists. You'll also find a few other handy functions as well. Qmailadmin is sort of the icing on the Qmail cake.

Let's install it...

cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf qmailadmin-1.2.3.tar.gz
cd qmailadmin-1.2.3
./configure --enable-cgibindir=/path/to/your/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/path/to/your/html/directory --enable-autoresponder-path=/path/to/autoresponder

For example

./configure --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/var/www/htdocs --enable-autoresponder-path=/usr/local/bin/qmail-autoresponder

You might want to use the option --disable-ipauth if you have some users complaining of getting logged out every now and then. This is due to their ISP proxy changing their outbound IP address. I am not sure how thieir ISP does that but they can have mutliple outbound IP's possibly in load balance.

make && make install-strip

That's it! Now browse to http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin and you should see the login screen. Login with the postmaster account and password for the domain that you created a while back using Vqadmin. Pretty cool, isn't it? Go ahead and create some additional mailboxes for your domain(s).

If you didn't get any errors, Qmailadmin should be all set!

note: if it's late and you're looking for a place to stop so you can sleep, this is a good place. Sendmail should still be handling mail on the server. After this page it's Qmail or bust!