This tutorial will cover how to setup email forwarding for a user from within Virtualmin.

It assumes you have first logged into Virtualmin.

1. Choose the domain for which you would like to setup forwarding. You can do that by selecting the domain name from the drop-down box on the top-left.

2. Choose Edit Users.

3. Click the name of the account for which you would like to add forwarding.

4. Click Mail forwarding settings to view the forwarding text area.

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This tutorial will cover how to create an email auto-responder for a user within Virtualmin.

An email auto-responder is an automated reply that will be sent to anyone sending an email to the account.

It assumes you have first logged into Virtualmin.

1. Choose the domain you would like to add the email account to. You can do that by selecting the domain name from the drop-down box on the top-left.

2. Choose Edit Users.

3. Click the name of the account you would like to add the auto-responder to.

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This tutorial will cover how to create an email account that can be accessed via POP, IMAP, or web-mail.

It assumes you have first logged into Virtualmin.

1. Choose the domain you would like to add the email account to. You can do that by selecting the domain name from the drop-down box on the top-left.

2. Click Edit Users.

3. Click Add a user to this server.

4. You can now enter the email address, full name, and password to use for this email account.

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Spam and Virus Scanning

Virtualmin allows you to enable spam and virus scanning on a per-virtual-server basis, and to configure what happens to email classifies as spam or virus-laden. Under the hood, it uses the popular SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/ package for spam detection, and ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/ for viruses.

SpamAssassin assigns each message it scans a score indicating how spammy it is, based on the content and servers it was sent from. Typically, anything with a score above 5 is regarded as most likely spam.

Troubleshooting Email

Mail is perhaps the most complex component in a Virtualmin system, combining a mail transfer agent (usually Postfix, but optionally Sendmail or qmail), a mail delivery agent (usually procmail), POP3/IMAP retrieval (usually Dovecot), anti-virus (ClamAV), anti-spam (SpamAssassin), and mail log analysis (Virtualmin's built-in mail log analysis tools, and optionally logwatch and others).

POP3 and IMAP and SMTP Authentication

Virtualmin configures the Dovecot POP3 and IMAP server for usage with all common mail clients, and Cyrus saslauthd for SMTP authentication on outgoing mail.

POP3/IMAP Username

You can always find the username for a user by looking on the Edit Users page for the virtual server in which the user exists. It will be displayed in the IMAP/FTP login field.