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     1 ============================
       
     2 vmm - a virtual mail manager
       
     3 ============================
       
     4 
       
     5 Welcome to vmm!
       
     6 
       
     7 vmm is the easy to use command line tool for administrators and postmasters,
       
     8 to manage domains, alias-domains, accounts and relocated mail users. It allows
       
     9 the fast and easy management of mail servers.
       
    10 
       
    11 vmm is written in Python_. It's designed for installations using Dovecot_ and
       
    12 Postfix_ with a PostgreSQL_ backend.
       
    13 
       
    14 Features
       
    15 ========
       
    16 • General features
       
    17 
       
    18   ‣ Unicode/UTF-8 capable (input/storage/output)
       
    19   ‣ supports IDN_
       
    20   ‣ supports the mailbox format Maildir_ and Dovecot's own high-performance
       
    21     mailbox formats single- and multi-\ dbox_
       
    22   ‣ configurable basic mailbox structure, including sub-mailboxes
       
    23   ‣ multilingual (currently: Dutch, English, French and German)
       
    24 
       
    25 • Domain features
       
    26 
       
    27   ‣ configurable transport setting per domain
       
    28   ‣ unique group identifier (GID) per domain
       
    29   ‣ each domain may have one or more alias domain names
       
    30   ‣ configurable quota limits (size and/or number of messages) for the
       
    31     domain's accounts
       
    32   ‣ supports relocated users
       
    33   ‣ the postmaster account can be created automatically when a new domain is
       
    34     created
       
    35 
       
    36 • Alias domain features
       
    37 
       
    38   ‣ alias domain names can be switched between domains
       
    39 
       
    40 • Account features
       
    41 
       
    42   ‣ configurable transport per account
       
    43   ‣ activate or deactivate one/more/all services (SMTP, POP, IMAP and
       
    44     ManageSieve) per account
       
    45   ‣ configurable quota limit (size and/or number of messages) per user
       
    46   ‣ unique user identifier (UID) per user
       
    47 
       
    48 • Alias features
       
    49 
       
    50   ‣ supports multiple destinations per e-mail alias
       
    51   ‣ destinations  can be deleted separately
       
    52 
       
    53 Source code
       
    54 ===========
       
    55 vmm's source code is available from the Mercurial_ repositories:
       
    56 
       
    57 • main repository
       
    58 
       
    59   ‣ ``http://hg.localdomain.org/vmm``
       
    60 
       
    61 • mirror repositories
       
    62 
       
    63   ‣ ``https://bitbucket.org/pvo/vmm``
       
    64   ‣ ``http://vmm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/vmm/vmm``
       
    65 
       
    66 Released versions are also available as gzip compressed tar archives at:
       
    67 https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmm/files/vmm/
       
    68 
       
    69 Installation/Upgrade
       
    70 ====================
       
    71 For installation or upgrading instructions read the `INSTALL` or `UPGRADE`
       
    72 file.
       
    73 
       
    74 License
       
    75 =======
       
    76 In short: "**New BSD License**" aka "3-clause license". For a few more
       
    77 details see the `COPYING` file.
       
    78 
       
    79 .. External references
       
    80 .. _dbox: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
       
    81 .. _Dovecot: http://dovecot.org/
       
    82 .. _IDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
       
    83 .. _Maildir: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
       
    84 .. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
       
    85 .. _Postfix: http://www.postfix.org/
       
    86 .. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/
       
    87 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/