11/25/21: At this point validrcptto is not working with s/qmail. You can skip the skel files and I have omitted the qmail-updater script for now .

 This documentation will attempt to take you through a step-by-step installation of vpopmail.


# pw groupadd vchkpw -g 89
# pw useradd vpopmail -u 89 -g vchkpw -m -d /usr/home/vpopmail -s /sbin/nologin
# pw groupadd qnofiles -g 81
# cd ~vpopmail
# tar zxvf ~root/qmail/skel4.tgz
# chown -R vpopmail:vchkpw skel/
# chmod -R 700 skel/

We now need to change where vpopmail is located in FreeBSD. The location where ports will try to install it is /usr/local/vpopmail so we're going to delete that folder and symlink it to ~vpopmail. Please change the section /home/vpopmail below if you have changed the default location of the vpopmail home directory. If you didn't or you're not sure it will be ok to proceed with the command below. Otherwise edit to taste :-)


# cd /usr/local
# ln -s /home/vpopmail /usr/local/vpopmail

Lets configure vpopmail and then install it.


# cd ~root/qmail
# tar zxvf vpopmail-5.4.33.tar.gz
# cd vpopmail-5.4.33
# ./configure --enable-onchange-script --enable-logging=p --disable-passwd --enable-clear-passwd --disable-many-domains --enable-auth-logging

Now lets finish the vpopmail install.


# make && make install-strip

If you don't get any errors, then Vpopmail is good to go! Further ahead in the installation, we'll create domains under vpopmail.

Now lets add a domain through the command line:


# cd ~vpopmail/bin
# ./vadddomain domain.com password

We need to now make a slight modification to the vchkpw file to make SMTP with SSL work correctly:


# cd ~vpopmail/bin
# chmod 6711 vchkpw
# chown vpopmail:vchkpw vchkpw

If you would like to specify a default username modify or create /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain and /home/vpopmail/etc/defaultdomain to specify your default domain. This will allow your users to just use their username to login rather than their entire email address.