I have split the FreeBSD insallation into two sections. The first section is for installing and configuring qmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamav and many other programs. The second optional section is for installing the components needed to add users/domains via a web interface. If you do not need to web interface options, you can skip this.

Step 1 - FreeBSD Installation checklist

Step 2 - Download qmailrocks and update it

Step 3 - Installing Perl

Step 4 - Installing qmail

Step 5 - Installing UCSPI-TCP

Step 6 - Installing Daemontools

Step 7 - Installing EZMLM-IDX

Step 8 - Installing autoresponder

Step 9 - Installing vpopmail

Step 10 - Configuring validrcptto

Step 11 - Installing maildrop

Step 12 - Disabling sendmail

Step 13 - Configuring Qmail

Step 14 - Setting up smtp with SSL

_____Screenshots: Setting up Thunderbird for SSL

_____Screenshots: Setting up Microsoft Outlook for SSL

_____Screenshots: Setting up Outlook Express for SSL

Step 15 - Setting up SpamAssassin

Step 16 - Setting up ClamAV

_____Option 1: Setting up QmailScanner 1.25 with qms analog

_____________Setting up Qmailstats

_____Option 2: Setting up QmailScanner 2.0 without qms analog

The next section below are mostly for web components so you can add users/domains via a web interface. If you do not need any
of this, you can skip over steps 17-20 and go right to Upgrading and Maintaining the qmailrocks system

Step 17 - Installing Courier-Imap

Step 18 - Installing Squirrelmail

Step 19 - Installing qmailadmin

Step 20 - Installing vQadmin

Optional Steps:

Upgrading and Maintaining the qmailrocks system

How to use services and look at logs

Understanding smtproutes

Color Coded Qmail Installation Key
 
Regular Black Text 
 Qmail installation notes and summaries by the author. Me talking.
 B
White Letters/Black Box 
 Commands to be run by you on the console
 
Bold Red Text 
 Vital and/or critical information.
 
Regular/Bold Purple text 
 Denotes helpful tips, hints and/or hyperlinks.
 
Regular Orange Text 
  Command line output.
Cp

Regular green text 

  Denotes the contents of a file or script.

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