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Various bits of code, scripts, and procedures were put together with information from John Simpson's qmail.jms1.net website. It's an excellent resource on managing and setting up a Qmail server.

The mail server is built upon the CentOS operating system, a free distro based upon RedHat Enterprise Linux.

A nice distro to use for the server is CentOS. It's built upon Redhat Enterprise Linux so it provides a "Redhat" style distro while being stable and well-tested. A more "cutting-edge" distro such as Ubuntu or Fedora aren't stable enough for practical use as a server – too many updates being regularly pushed out.

Installation
The CentOS Guide has installation instructions.

Be sure to install Development Tools and NTP daemon.

Recent Updates

nginx

8 months 2 weeks ago

1.27.2 update
lighttpd

8 months 3 weeks ago

Drupal 10/11 config
Drupal 11

8 months 3 weeks ago
PHP

8 months 3 weeks ago

PHP 8.3.11 and AlmaLinux
Pound SSL Proxy

8 months 4 weeks ago

New version of Pound

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SquidGuard

SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the proxysoftware Squid. There are two big advantages to squidguard: it is fast and it is free.
NCurses Disk Usage

A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don't have an entire gaphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.
WPKG

WPKG is an automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.

It can be used to push/pull software packages, such as Service Packs, hotfixes, or program installations from a central server (for example, Samba or Active Directory) to a number of workstations.

It can run as a service to install software in the background (silent install), without user interaction.

It can install MSI, InstallShield, PackagefortheWeb, Inno Setup, Nullsoft, other software installers or .exe packages, .bat and .cmd scripts and similar: no more repackaging to perform software installation.

WPKG is open source software.
opsi

opsi (Open PC Server Integration) the Open Source client management system
Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

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