diff -r 3ca31d080432 -r ee6f8ac06197 README --- a/README Wed Oct 26 03:25:37 2011 +0000 +++ b/README Wed Oct 26 18:55:30 2011 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +============================ +vmm - a virtual mail manager +============================ + +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/