meillo@186: \clearpage meillo@186: \vspace*{6ex} meillo@154: meillo@154: \section*{\centering Abstract} meillo@166: meillo@386: \masqmail\ is a mail transfer agent for workstations and small networks, and a small replacement for \sendmail, \postfix, and \exim\ in those cases. It has been orphaned by its author more than five years ago. Since then it remained unchanged in a world where emailing did change. Nevertheless, \masqmail\ has unique advantages that makes it still a valuable software. meillo@154: meillo@386: This diploma thesis is a scientific planning effort to revive \masqmail. It provides a highly structured analysis of \masqmail\ and its environment. Modern requirements for \masqmail\ are compared against the current state of the program to receive a list of pending work tasks. Further development strategies are carefully compared and discussed. Finally concrete plans and recommendations are defined, with the goal of turning \masqmail\ into a modern mail transfer agent again. meillo@154: meillo@357: meillo@357: meillo@154: meillo@166: meillo@186: \vspace*{6ex} meillo@154: meillo@154: \section*{\centering Keywords} meillo@166: meillo@386: future of communication, meillo@386: mail transfer agent (\MTA), meillo@386: market analysis, meillo@386: masqmail, meillo@386: \MTA\ architecture, meillo@386: non-permanent Internet connection, meillo@386: requirements for modern \MTA{}s, meillo@386: software redesign, meillo@386: unified messaging. meillo@154: meillo@154: meillo@167: meillo@186: \vfill meillo@186: meillo@204: \fbox{\parbox{\textwidth}{ \scriptsize\sffamily meillo@186: Copyright \copyright\ 2008,\,2009 by Markus Schnalke. meillo@186: meillo@204: \vspace{1ex} meillo@207: This document was typeset in Palatino and Computer Modern font, using the LaTeX document preparation system on machines running the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Text editing was done with Vim. The PIC language and troff were used to generate the diagrams, in exception of figure \ref{fig:masqmail-arch} which was produced with Egypt and GraphVis. Mercurial was chosen for version control. Further programs and scripts were used for minor tasks---it was all Free Software, though. meillo@186: %FIXME: check programs used meillo@186: meillo@204: \vspace{1ex} meillo@204: The final version of this thesis, in Portable Document Format and PostScript as well as the complete source code, can be retrieved from my website: http://marmaro.de/docs\,. meillo@186: meillo@204: \vspace{1ex} meillo@186: Permission is hereby granted to copy and distribute this document in verbatim form. meillo@186: }} meillo@186: