Author Archives: Paul Smith
Advanced Backups for VPOP3
As everyone knows, backups are very important, especially with an important piece of software such as a mail server. With VPOP3 v5 and later, VPOP3 will automatically make a backup of its database every day. The database in v5 and later contains all the settings, users, messages, etc, so is essentially a full backup and […]
Read More...VPOP3 v6.3 – GeoIP access restrictions
One of the new features in VPOP3 v6.3 was the support for ‘GeoIP’ in the Access Restrictions settings. This lets you specify that only IP addresses from certain countries can access VPOP3 services. Many people use this type of restriction to prevent access from countries commonly used by attackers. In fact, the VPOP3 GeoIP facility […]
Read More...VPOP3 v6.3 released
We have just released VPOP3 v6.3. This is a free upgrade for any users whose Software Maintenance is still active on 25th July 2013. You can get a full list of the changes between v6.2 and v6.3 on our Bug Tracker, but some which people may find interesting Added “BCC” monitoring and blocking. Blocking can be set […]
Read More...New feature in v6.1 – Store and Forward
The new Store and Forward feature in VPOP3 Enterprise v6.1 and later lets your users access mail on a VPOP3 backup server while the main server is not functioning.
Read More...Pruning old messages automatically
In VPOP3 Enterprise 6.2 and later you can tell VPOP3 to automatically delete old messages, based on specified criteria. You can either do this globally, for all users, or just for specific users. To edit the global criteria (rules), go to Settings -> Database -> Message Store, and look at the Global Prune Rules section. To […]
Read More...VPOP3 v6.2 released
We have just released VPOP3 v6.2. This is a free upgrade for any users whose Software Maintenance is still active on 23rd May 2013. You can get a full list of the changes between v6.1 and v6.2 on our Bug Tracker, but some which people may find interesting Updated the admin pages to support IE10 […]
Read More...Command line access to VPOP3 settings
In VPOP3 v5 and later, all the settings are stored in the main database. While this makes it easier to backup, migrate and use database replication, it does make it a bit harder to access settings from outside of VPOP3. You can use the ‘psql‘ command-line program, or a graphical tool like pgAdmin to access […]
Read More...PostgreSQL replication and Bucardo
PostgreSQL streaming replication in PostgreSQL 9.0 and later is excellent if it is suitable, and it is relatively easy to set up, with several walkthroughs on the Internet. The main limitation of the streaming replication is that all the servers which are replicating have to be pretty much identical. They have to be: Same major version […]
Read More...VPOP3 v6.0 – Bandwidth control
One of the new features in VPOP3 Enterprise v6 is enhanced bandwidth control. This allows you to restrict the speed of VPOP3 connections for different users, services and IP addresses. VPOP3 Basic has basic bandwidth control, so this article may still be useful, but VPOP3 Basic does not support ‘bandwidth pools’ or scripting. Because of […]
Read More...Mistake with VPOP3 6.1
Yesterday we released VPOP3 6.1 (build 2648) and had to remove it from our website a few hours later. This was because we discovered an incompatibility with Windows XP/2003. This version works fine on Windows Vista and later, but we inadvertently added something which required Windows Vista. LevelDB The ‘culprit’ was LevelDB. This is a […]
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