Manual vpopmail Configuration

Last modified: 27 Dec 2007

WARNING: This documentation covers Parallels H-Sphere versions up to 3.1. For the latest up-to-date Parallels H-Sphere documentation, please proceed to the official Parallels site.

Any operations with vpopmail are performed on your mailserver (each mail server requires POP and SMTP services. If there is more than 1 mail server, users are distributed evenly across all of them).

To add a pop3 account into your system, you should change the directory to ~vpopmail/bin.
For example, to add pop3 box "test" on existing domain "domain.com", type the following command:

#$: ./vadduser test@domain.com

After that, you will be prompted for user password. Enter it.
General format for "vadduser" command is:

vadduser [options] email_address [passwd]

You can also use the following instruction and options:
-q quota_in_bytes (sets the users quota)
-s (do not rebuild the vpasswd.cdb file, faster for large sites)
-c comment (sets the gecos comment field)
-a (sets the account to use APOP, default is POP)

If you want to delete an existing user, you need to simply enter the following command:

#$: ./vdeluser test@domain.com

You can also change user information without delete/create operation. To do it, type:

#$: ./vmoduser [options] full_email@address

options:

-v (display the vpopmail version number)
-n (do not rebuild the vpasswd.cdb file)
-q quota (set quota)
-c comment (set the comment/gecos field)
-e encrypted_passwd (set the password field)
the following options are bit flags in the gid int field
-u (set no dialup flag)
-d (set no password changing flag)
-p (set no pop access flag)
-w (set no web mail access flag)
-i (set no imap access flag)
-b (set bounce mail flag)
-r (set no external relay flag)
-0 (set V_USER0 flag)
-1 (set V_USER1 flag)
-2 (set V_USER2 flag)
-3 (set V_USER3 flag)
-x (clear all flags)

You can view information for an existing user by typing:

#$: ./vuserinfo [options] full_email@address

options:

-v (print version number)
-a (display all fields, this is the default)
-p (display crypted password)
-u (display uid field)
-g (display gid field)
-c (display comment field)
-d (display directory)
-q (display quota field)

To change the password, use the following command:

#$: ./vpasswd full_email@address

To set quota for user's pop account, use the command below:

#$: ./vsetuserquota [options] full_email@address quota_in_bytes

To add client mail relay server, you need to add a corresponding line into the ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp file, such as:

ITS.IPA.DDR.ESS:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

After that, you need to rebuild the tcp.smtp.cdb file by typing the following command:

/hsphere/shared/bin/tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp < tcp.smtp

If you want to add a forward to an existing email address, you should change the directory to ~vpopmail/domains/domain.name, and create the .qmail-popusername file with the line:

&email@where.mail.forward

If you are recompiling vpopmail, use the following configuration string:

For more commands and options, see Vpopmail and Qmail documentation.