README
author Pascal Volk <neverseen@users.sourceforge.net>
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vmm - a virtual mail manager
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Welcome to vmm!

vmm is the easy to use command line tool for administrators and postmasters,
to manage domains, alias-domains, accounts and relocated mail users. It allows
the fast and easy management of mail servers.

vmm is written in Python_. It's designed for installations using Dovecot_ and
Postfix_ with a PostgreSQL_ backend.

Features
========
 General features

   Unicode/UTF-8 capable (input/storage/output)
   supports IDN_
   supports the mailbox format Maildir_ and Dovecot's own high-performance
    mailbox formats single- and multi-\ dbox_
   configurable basic mailbox structure, including sub-mailboxes
   multilingual (currently: Dutch, English, French and German)

 Domain features

   configurable transport setting per domain
   unique group identifier (GID) per domain
   each domain may have one or more alias domain names
   configurable quota limits (size and/or number of messages) for the
    domain's accounts
   supports relocated users
   the postmaster account can be created automatically when a new domain is
    created

 Alias domain features

   alias domain names can be switched between domains

 Account features

   configurable transport per account
   activate or deactivate one/more/all services (SMTP, POP, IMAP and
    ManageSieve) per account
   configurable quota limit (size and/or number of messages) per user
   unique user identifier (UID) per user

 Alias features

   supports multiple destinations per e-mail alias
   destinations  can be deleted separately

Source code
===========
vmm's source code is available from the Mercurial_ repositories:

 main repository

   ``http://hg.localdomain.org/vmm``

 mirror repositories

   ``https://bitbucket.org/pvo/vmm``
   ``http://vmm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/vmm/vmm``

Released versions are also available as gzip compressed tar archives at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmm/files/vmm/

Installation/Upgrade
====================
For installation or upgrading instructions read the `INSTALL` or `UPGRADE`
file.

License
=======
In short: "**New BSD License**" aka "3-clause license". For a few more
details see the `COPYING` file.

.. External references
.. _dbox: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
.. _Dovecot: http://dovecot.org/
.. _IDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
.. _Maildir: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
.. _Postfix: http://www.postfix.org/
.. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/