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+mailserver-admin
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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jeboehm/mailserver-admin.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jeboehm/mailserver-admin)
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+Description
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+This is an administration interface for [docker-mailserver](https://github.com/jeboehm/docker-mailserver).