Debian packages install

Install Daemontools and ucspi-tcp

aptitude install ucspi-tcp daemontools daemontools-run

Install Courier packages

aptitude install courier-base courier-authdaemon courier-authlib courier-authlib-mysql courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop-ssl courier-pop courierpassd courier-maildrop gamin libgamin0

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Install needed compiler, tools and library

aptitude install cpp g++ gcc make automake wget telnet libtool patch patchutils logrotate dh-make-perl libltdl7 libcdb1 sudo equivs expect openssl libssl-dev libgmp3-dev libgdbm-dev libpcre++-dev libpcre-ocaml libpcre-ocaml-dev makepasswd

For security reason, it's a good idea to remove the compilers (cpp, g++, gcc and make) after your complete this guide

Install MySQL database and libraries

aptitude install mysql-common mysql-server-5.5 mysql-client-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5 libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-dev

Remember your root MySQL password (described as MySQL_root_password later in this guide)

Install Apache & PHP

aptitude install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork php5 php5-common libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-mcrypt php5-intl

Install antispam and antivirus

aptitude install spamassassin spamc pyzor razor clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-daemon clamav-docs

Install un-archiver tools

aptitude install arj unrar lhasa unzip bzip2 tar tnef

Install perl modules

aptitude install spf-tools-perl libmailtools-perl libnet-cidr-lite-perl libnet-daemon-perl libtest-distribution-perl libmail-spf-perl libperl-dev

aptitude install libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl perl-doc libgeo-ip-perl libdate-manip-perl libio-string-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ident-perl libsys-syslog-perl libencode-detect-perl

aptitude install libnet-dns-perl libtimedate-perl libio-compress-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha-perl libparse-syslog-perl libmail-dkim-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl

Install debug / manipulation tools

Those last ones are not mandatory but are useful if you need to debug

aptitude install dnsutils whois findutils pciutils less net-tools tcpdump iptraf lsof dstat iotop htop mc locate

Download all the needed items for the Qmail installation

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