Note: This Guide is based off of the guide on Qmailrocks.org and modified by UniCav and MrJackson to bring it upto date along with some other minor changes.
Items in Pink need to be addressed, items Orange are my comments and items changed from the official Qmailrocks.org guide.
As it is now, I've split the Slackware qmail installation up into 20 sections which are listed below. Simply start at step 1 and follow it all the way to completion. By the time you reach step 20, you should have a kickass qmail server. You may notice that the Slackware installation guide shares many of it's steps with the Redhat/Debian guide. This is due to the close similarity of the 2 installations. On the portions of the install that are unique to Slackware, you will be directed to a Slackware specific page.
Before You Start! - When installing Qmail, I would STRONGLY reccomend that you first conduct a test installation on a test server if you have one available. I cannot stress this enough. If you're new to Qmail, chances are you will probably screw the install up the first time through. Do yourself a favor and screw up on a test server that has no importance to you! I had to learn this the hard way. ;)
Pre-installation steps
P1 - An introduction to the QMR installation / Setting your expectations
P2 - Pre-Installation Checklist
Installation steps
Part 1 - Download All the Needed Items for the Qmail installation
Part 2 - Installing Qmail itself - John Simpson's combined patch version change
Part 3 - Installing EZmlm and EZmlm-idx
Part 4 - Installing Autoresponder
Part 5 - Installing Vpopmail
Part 6 - Installing VQadmin
Part 7 - Installing maildrop - Updated version
Part 8 - Installing QmailAdmin - Update version
Part 9 - Finalizing the qmail installation - removed postmaster alias
Part 10 - Uninstalling Sendmail
Part 11 - Starting up qmail - changed check script to remove postmaster
Part 12 - Installing Courier-authlib, Courier-imap/imaps, and Courierpassd
Part 13 - Installation of the Squirrelmail web mail program
Part 14 - Clam Anti Virus & SpamAssassin
Part 15 - Installing qmail-scanner w/qms-analog
Part 16 - Installing Qmailanalog & Qlogtools
Part 17 - Installing Qtrap
Part 18 - Maintaining your qmail server
Part 19 - Mail client configuration
Part 20 - Feedback
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