1 ===============

     2 Features of vmm

     3 ===============

     4 

     5 General features

     6 ----------------

     7  ‣ Unicode/UTF-8 capable (input/storage/output)

     8  ‣ supports IDN_

     9  ‣ supports the mailbox format Maildir_ and Dovecot's own high-performance

    10    mailbox formats single- and multi-\ dbox_

    11  ‣ configurable basic mailbox structure, including sub-mailboxes

    12  ‣ multilingual — currently:

    13 

    14   * Dutch

    15   * English

    16   * Finnish

    17   * French

    18   * German

    19   * Vietnamese

    20 

    21 Domain features

    22 ---------------

    23  ‣ configurable transport_ setting per domain

    24  ‣ unique group identifier (GID) per domain

    25  ‣ each domain may have one or more alias domain names

    26  ‣ activate or deactivate services (SMTP, POP3, IMAP and ManageSieve) for new

    27    or all accounts of a domain

    28  ‣ configurable quota limits (size and/or number of messages) for the

    29    domain's accounts

    30  ‣ supports relocated_ users

    31  ‣ the postmaster account can be created automatically when a new domain is

    32    created

    33  ‣ supports per-domain catch-all aliases

    34 

    35 Alias domain features

    36 ---------------------

    37  ‣ alias domain names can be switched between domains

    38 

    39 Account features

    40 ----------------

    41  ‣ configurable transport per account

    42  ‣ activate or deactivate one/more/all services (SMTP, POP3, IMAP and

    43    ManageSieve) per account

    44  ‣ configurable quota limit (size and/or number of messages) per user

    45  ‣ per-account configuration overrides defaults defined by the domain,

    46    otherwise the setting is inherited

    47  ‣ unique user identifier (UID) per user

    48 

    49 Alias features

    50 --------------

    51  ‣ supports multiple destinations per e-mail alias

    52  ‣ destinations can be deleted separately

    53  ‣ respects Postfix' virtual_alias_expansion_limit_ on creation

    54  ‣ destinations can be interpolated using the original address' local-part

    55    and domain, allowing aliases to have different meaning in alias domains,

    56    e.g. with the following defined in example.org::

    57 

    58     postmaster@example.org  →  postmaster+%d@admin.example.org

    59 

    60    If example.com is an alias domain of example.org, the alias will become::

    61 

    62     postmaster@example.org  →  postmaster+example.org@admin.example.org

    63     postmaster@example.com  →  postmaster+example.com@admin.example.org

    64 

    65 Wanted features

    66 ---------------

    67  ‣ Do you want more? Please use the `issue tracker`_ to submit your proposal.

    68 

    69 .. include:: ext_references.rst