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2 <tr><td><h1>masqmail</h1>
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3 <h2>An offline Mail Transfer Agent</h2>
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5
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6 <h2>Synopsis</h2>
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7 <b>
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8 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-C <em>file</em>] [-odq] [-bd] [-q<em>interval</em>]<br>
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9
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10 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-bs]<br>
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11
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12 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-bp]<br>
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13
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14 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-q]<br>
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15
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16 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-qo [<em>name</em>]]<br>
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17
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18 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-g [<em>name</em>]]<br>
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19
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20 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-go [<em>name</em>]]<br>
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21
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22 /usr/sbin/masqmail [-t] [-oi] [-f <em>address</em>] [--] <em>address...</em><br>
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23
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24 /usr/sbin/mailq<br>
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25
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26 </b>
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27
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28
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29 <h2>Description</h2>
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30
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31 <p>MasqMail is a mail server designed for hosts that do
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32 not have a permanent internet connection eg. a home network or a
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33 single host at home. It has special support for connections to
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34 different ISPs. It replaces sendmail or other MTAs such as qmail or
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35 exim. It can also act as a pop3 client.</p>
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36
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37
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38
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39 <h2>Options</h2>
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40
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41 <p>Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same
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42 command line options, but not all are implemented. There are also two
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43 additional options, which are unique to masqmail (-qo <em>connection</em> and -g)
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44 </p>
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45
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46
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47 <p><b>--</b></p>
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48 <p>Not a 'real' option, it means that all following arguments are to
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49 be understood as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a
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50 leading dash '-'. Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option.</p>
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51
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52
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53
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54 <p><b>-bd</b></p>
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55 <p>Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not
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56 configured differently. This is usually used in the startup script at system boot and
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57 together with the -q option (see below).</p>
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58
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59
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60
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61 <p><b>-bi</b></p>
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62 <p>Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this
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63 option. Masqmail ignores it. Masqmail reads directly from the file
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64 given with alias_file in the config file.</p>
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65
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66
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67
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68 <p><b>-bp</b></p>
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69 <p>Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as
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70 'mailq'.</p>
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71
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72
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73
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74 <p><b>-bs</b></p>
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75 <p>Accept SMTP commands from stdin. Some mailers (eg pine) use this
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76 option as an interface. It can also be used to call masqmail from
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77 inetd.</p>
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78
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79
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80
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81 <p><b>-B <em>arg</em></b></p>
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82 <p><em>arg</em> is usually 8BITMIME. Some mailers use this
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83 to indicate that the message contains characters > 127. Masqmail is
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84 8-bit clean and ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm,
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85 which is very painful ;-). Note though that this violates some
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86 conventions: masqmail does not convert 8 bit messages to any
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87 MIME format if it encounters a mail server which does not advertise
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88 its 8BITMIME capability, masqmail does not advertise this itself. This
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89 is the same practice as that of exim (but different to
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90 sendmail).</p>
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91
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92
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93 <p><b>-bV </b></p>
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94 <p>Show version information.</p>
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95
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97
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98
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99 <p><b>-C </b><em>filename</em></p>
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100 <p>Use another configuration than <em>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</em>. Useful for
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101 debugging purposes. If not invoked by a privileged user, masqmail will drop all privileges.
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102 </p>
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103
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105
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106 <p><b>-d <em>number</em></b></p>
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108 <p>Set the debug level. This takes precedence before the value of
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109 debug_level in the configuration file. Read the warning in the
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110 description of the latter.
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111 </p>
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112
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113
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114
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115
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116 <p><b>-f [<em>address</em>]</b></p>
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117
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118 <p>Set the return path address to <em>address</em>. Only root, the
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119 user mail and anyoune in group trusted is allowed to do that.</p>
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120
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122
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123
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124 <p><b>-F [<em>string</em>]</b></p>
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125
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126 <p>Set the full sender name (in the From: header)
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127 to <em>string</em>.</p>
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130
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131
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132 <p><b>-g [<em>name</em>]</b></p>
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133
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134 <p>Get mail (using pop3 or apop), using the configurations given
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135 with get.<em>name</em> in the main configuration. Without <em>name</em>,
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136 all get configurations will be used. See also <a href="masqmail.get.5.html">masqmail.get</a></p>
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139
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140
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141 <p><b>-go [<em>interval</em>] [<em>name</em>]</b></p>
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142
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143 <p>Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your
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144 script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up
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145 (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the
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146 specified get configuration(s) is(are) read and mail will be
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147 retrieved from servers on the internet.
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148 The <em>name</em> is defined
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149 in the configuration (see <b>online_gets.<em>name</em></b>).
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150 </p><p>
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151 If called with an interval option (recognized by a digit
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152 as the first characater), masqmail starts as a daemon and tries to
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153 get mail in these intervals. It checks for the online status first.
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154 Example: masqmail -go 5m will retrieve mail
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155 all five minutes.
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156 </p><p>
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157 If called without <em>name</em> the online status is determined with
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158 the configured method (see <b>online_detect</b> in config.html).
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159 </p>
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164 <p><b>-i</b></p>
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165 <p>Same as -oi, see below.</p>
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168
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169 <p><b>-Mrm <em>list</em></b></p>
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170 <p>Remove given messages from the queue. Only allowed for privileged users.</p>
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172
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173
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174 <p><b>-oem</b></p>
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175 <p>If the -oi ist not also given, always return with a non zero
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176 return code. Maybe someone tells me what this is good for...</p>
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179
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180 <p><b>-odb</b></p>
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181 <p>Deliver in background. Masqmail always does this, which
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182 makes this option pretty much useless.</p>
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183
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184
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185
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186 <p><b>-odq</b></p>
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187 <p>Do not attempt to deliver immediately. Any messages will be queued
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188 until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers
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189 them. You get the same effect by setting the do_queue option in
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190 /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf.</p>
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193
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194 <p><b>-oi</b></p>
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195 <p>A dot as a single character in a line does not terminate
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196 the message.</p>
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197
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198
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199
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200 <p><b>-q [<em>interval</em>]</b></p>
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201 <p>If not given with an argument, run a queue process, ie. try to
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202 deliver all messages in the queue. Masqmail sends only to those
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203 addresses that are on the local net, not to those that are
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204 outside. Use -qo for those.</p>
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205 <p>
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206 If you have configured inetd to start masqmail, you can use this
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207 option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals, to mimic
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208 the same effect as starting masqmail with -bd -q30m.
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209 </p><p>
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210 An argument may be a time interval ie. a numerical value followed
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211 by one of the letters. s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds,
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212 minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. Example: -q30m. Masqmail
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213 starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started
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214 automatically once in this time interval. This is usually used
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215 together with -bd (see above).
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216 </p>
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220
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221 <p><b>-qo [<em>name</em>]</b></p>
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222
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223 <p>Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your
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224 script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up
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225 (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the
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226 specified route configuration is read and the queued mail with
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227 destinations on the internet will be sent. The <em>name</em> is defined
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228 in the configuration (see <b>online_routes.<em>name</em></b>).
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229 </p><p>
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230 If called without <em>name</em> the online status is determined with
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231 the configured method (see <b>online_detect</b> in config.html)
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232 </p>
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237 <p><b>-t</b></p>
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238 <p>Read recipients from headers. Delete 'Bcc:' headers. If any
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239 arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses and
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240 the message will not be sent to these.</p>
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241
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243
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244 <p><b>-v</b></p>
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245 <p>Log also to stdout. Currently, some log messages are
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246 marked as 'write to stdout' and additionally, all messages with
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247 priority 'LOG_ALERT' and 'LOG_WARNING' will be written to stdout
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248 if this option is given. It is disabled in daemon mode.
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249 </p>
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250
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252
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253
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254 <h2>Environment for pipes and mdas</h2>
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255
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257 <p>For security reasons, before any pipe command from an alias
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258 expansion or an mda is called, the environment variables will be
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259 completely discarded and newly set up. These are:</p>
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260 <p>SENDER, RETURN_PATH - the return path.</p>
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261 <p>SENDER_DOMAIN - the domain part of the return path.</p>
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262 <p>SENDER_LOCAL - the local part of the return path.</p>
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263 <p>RECEIVED_HOST - the host the message was received from (unless local).</p>
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264 <p>LOCAL_PART, USER, LOGNAME - the local part of the (original) recipient.</p>
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265 <p>MESSAGE_ID - the unique message id. This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.</p>
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266 <p>QUALIFY_DOMAIN - the domain which will be appended to unqualified addresses.</p>
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267
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269
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270
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271 <h2>Files</h2>
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272
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273 <p><em>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</em> is the main configuration
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274 for masqmail. Depending on the settings in this file, you will also
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275 have other configuration files in <em>/etc/masqmail/</em>.</p>
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276 <p><em>/etc/aliases</em> is the alias file, if not set differently
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277 in <em>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</em>.</p>
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278 <p><em>/var/spool/masqmail/</em> is the spool directory where masqmail
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279 stores its spooled messages and the uniq pop ids.</p>
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280 <p><em>/var/spool/mail/</em> is the directory where locally delivered mail will be put, if not configured differently in <em>masqmail.conf</em>.</p>
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281 <p><em>/var/log/masqmail/</em> is the directory where masqmail stores
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282 its log mesages. This can also be somewhere else if configured
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283 differently by your sysadmin or the package mantainer.</p>
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284
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286
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287 <h2>Conforming to</h2>
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288
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289 <p>RFC 821, 822, 1869, 1870, 2197, 2554 (SMTP)</p>
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290 <p>RFC 1725, 1939 (POP3)</p>
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291 <p>RFC 1321 (MD5)</p>
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292 <p>RFC 2195 (CRAM-MD5)</p>
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293
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295
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296 <h2>Author</h2>
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297
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298 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth
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299 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of
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300 masqmail at <a href = "http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/">http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/</a> or search for it
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301 in freshmeat (<a href = "http://www.freshmeat.net">http://www.freshmeat.net</a>). There is also a mailing list,
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302 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p>
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303
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305
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306 <h2>Bugs</h2>
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307
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308 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p>
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311
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312 <h2>See also</h2>
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313
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314 <p>
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315 <a href="masqmail.conf.5.html">masqmail.conf</a>, <a href="masqmail.route.5.html">masqmail.route</a>, <a href="masqmail.get.5.html">masqmail.get</a>, <a href="masqmail.aliases.5.html">masqmail.aliases</a>
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316 </p>
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319
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320 <h2>Comments</h2>
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321
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322 <p>This man page was written using <a href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/">xml2man</a> by the same author.</p>
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325
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326 </td></tr></table></center>
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327 </body>
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