1. What is Mailany?

Mailany is a management tool of emails accounts centralized with an Web interface. Mailany allows the creation and the management of emails accounts on several servers from a single interface. Thanks to Mailany, no particular knowledge concerning the emails is required, which makes it possible to off-set this administration on the clients. So the clients have a control of the addresses and emails accounts for their domain.

2. Who are Mailany's clients?

Mailany product is intended to all the people who have a domain name and who want to manage their email accounts easily.

3. What are the differences between a mail server and Mailany?

The difference between a mail server and Mailany is that Mailany isn't a mail server!!! It's program which allows to manage a mail server (in our case Postfix). I.e that it will allows to create, change or remove email accounts with an interface which give you an easy access.

4. Do I need patent licenses to use Mailany?

To use Mailany, you don't need any licenses. As this project is a GPL project (General Public License), it allows everyone to use it free.

5. Is Mailany difficult to install?

Mailany's installation is made for network administrator and requires Unix and such products like postfix or mysql knowledge.

6. Which is the current version of Mailany?

The current Mailany version available is mailany 0.11. So, this version is the most recent but it is not stable; That is to say that it still stay some bugs. On the other hand the latest stable version is mailany 0.12.4.

7. How can I contribute to the improvement of Mailany?

In order to contribute to the development of the Mailany product, You must subscribe to the mailany-dev@mailany.org and to make share with the developers your ideas for Mailany's improvement.

8. Why publish a software whith GPL license?

Technically, the publication of the sources of a program can allow the improvement by other people lower cost. The addition of new functionalities can be done more quickly: Certain people can need new functionalities and develop them. The software developed according to an open model is generally more stable, because they can be test by many people throughout their development (because of the sources are available, it is not necessary to wait an official output to be able to test it on many environments). The portability is increased because, by having access to the sources, the developers of various platforms can take part in the bearing.