Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Version
• Installation
• Quickstart
• Maintenance
  • Shell Access
• References

Introduction

Dockerfile to build a container image with qmail and ezmlm.

This container will run supervisord and start up

• qmail-send and a qmail tcp server (for smtp)

This is only useful for running ezmlm based mailing lists. The original repository by Maescool has more features.

Version

Current versions:

• netqmail: 1.0.6 (originally for qmail.org)
• ezmlm: github 7.2.2 version of https://github.com/bruceg/ezmlm-idx

Configuration

Data Store

if you don't want to lose your mail when the docker container is stopped/deleted. To avoid losing any data, you should mount a volume at,

• /home (for mailing lists)
• /var/qmail/control
• /var/qmail/users

Maintenance

Shell Access

For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell.

docker exec -it qmail bash

References

• http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/
• http://www.lifewithqmail.org/