masqmail.conf
+masqmail configuration file
+
+
+Description
+
+This man page describes the syntax of the main configuration file
+of masqmail. Its usual location is /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
+
+The configuration consists of lines of the form
+
+val = expression
+
+Where val is a variable name and expression a string,
+which can be quoted with '"'. If the expression is on multiple lines
+or contains characters other than letters, digits or the characters
+'.', '-', '_', '/', it must be quoted. You can use quotes inside quotes
+by escaping them with a backslash.
+
+Each val has a type, which can be boolean, numeric, string
+or list. A boolean variable can be set with one of the values 'on',
+'yes', and 'true' or 'off', 'no' and 'false'. List items are separated
+with ';'. For some values patterns (like '*','?') can be used. The
+spaces before and after the '=' are optional.
+
+Most lists (exceptions: local_hosts,
+local_nets, listen_addresses, online_routes and online_gets) accept
+files. These will be recognized by a leading slash '/'. The contents
+of these files will be included at the position of the file name,
+there can be items or other files before and after the file entry. The
+format of the files is different though, within these files each entry
+is on another line. (And not separated by semicolons). This makes it
+easy to include large lists which are common in different
+configuration files, so they do not have to appear in every
+configuration file.
+
+Blank lines and lines starting with '#' are ignored.
+
+
+
+
+Options
+
+
+run_as_user = boolean
+
+If this is set, masqmail runs with the user id of the user who
+invoked it and never changes it. This is for debugging purposes
+only. If the user is not root, masqmail will not be able to
+listen on a port < 1024 and will not be able to deliver local mail
+to others than the user.
+
+
+
+
+use_syslog = boolean
+
+If this is set, masqmail uses syslogd for logging. It uses facility
+MAIL. You still have to set log_dir for debug files.
+
+
+
+
+debug_level = n
+
+Set the debug level. Valid values are 0 to 6, increasing it further
+makes no difference. Be careful if you set this as high as 5 or higher,
+the logs may very soon fill your hard drive.
+
+
+
+
+mail_dir = file
+
+The directory where local mail is stored,
+usually /var/spool/mail or /var/mail.
+
+
+
+
+spool_dir = file
+
+The directory where masqmail stores its spool files (and later also
+other stuff). It must have a subdirectory input.
+Masqmail needs read and write permissions for this
+directory. I suggest to use /var/spool/masqmail.
+
+
+
+
+host_name = string
+
+This is used in different places: Masqmail identifies itself in the
+greeting banner on incoming connections and in the HELO/EHLO command
+for outgoing connections with this name, it is used in the Received:
+header and to qualify the sender of a locally originating message.
+
+If the string begins with a slash '/', it it assumed that it is a
+filename, and the first line of this file will be used. Usually this will
+be '/etc/mailname' to make masqmail conform to Debian policies.
+
+It is not used to find whether an address is local.
+Use local_hosts for that.
+
+
+
+
+remote_port = n
+
+The remote port number to be used. This defaults to port 25.
+This option is deprecated. Use host_name in the route
+configuration instead. See masqmail.route.
+
+
+
+
+local_hosts = list
+
+A semicolon ';' separated list of hostnames which are considered
+local. Normally you set it to "localhost;foo;foo.bar.com" if your host
+has the fully qualified domain name 'foo.bar.com'.
+
+
+
+
+local_nets = list
+
+A semicolon ';' separated list of hostnames which are on the
+'local' net. Delivery to these hosts is attempted immediately. You can
+use patterns with '*', eg. "*.bar.com".
+
+
+
+
+local_addresses = list
+
+A semicolon ';' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses
+which are considered local although their domain name part is not in
+the list of local_hosts.
+For example: There are two people working at your
+LAN: person1@yourdomain and person2@yourdomain. But there are
+other persons @yourdomain which are NOT local. So you can not put
+yourdomain to the list of local_hosts. If person1 now wants
+to write to person2@yourdomain and this mail should not leave the LAN
+then you can put
+local_addresses = "person1@yourdomain;person2@yourdomain"
+to your masqmail.conf.
+
+
+
+
+not_local_addresses = list
+
+A semicolon ';' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses
+which are considered not local although their domain name part is in
+the list of local_hosts.
+This ist the opposite of the previous case. The majority of addresses
+of a specific domain are local. But some users are not. With this
+option you can easily exclude these users.
+Example:
+local_hosts = "localhost;myhost;mydomain.net"
+not_local_addresses = "eric@mydomain.net"
+
+
+
+
+listen_addresses = list
+
+A semicolon ';' separated list of interfaces on which connections
+will be accepted. An interface ist defined by a hostname, optionally
+followed by a colon ':' and a number for the port. If this is left out,
+port 25 will be used.
+You can set this to "localhost:25;foo:25" if your hostname is 'foo'.
+Note that the names are resolved to IP addreses. If your host has
+different names which resolve to the same IP, use only one of them,
+otherwise you will get an error message.
+
+
+
+
+
+do_save_envelope_to = boolean
+
+If this is set to true, a possibly existing Envelope-to: header in an
+incoming mail which is received via either pop3 or smtp will be saved as
+an X-Orig-Envelope-to: header.
+This is useful if you retrieve mail from a pop3 server with either masqmail
+or fetchmail, and the server supports Envelope-to: headers, and you want to make use
+of those with a mail filtering tool, eg. procmail. It cannot be preserved because
+masqmail sets such a header by itself.
+Default is false.
+
+
+
+
+do_relay = boolean
+
+If this is set to false, mail with a return path that is not local and a
+destination that is also not local will not be accepted via smtp and a 550
+reply will be given. Default is true.
+Note that this will not protect you from spammers using open relays, but from
+users unable to set their address in their mail clients.
+
+
+
+
+do_queue = boolean
+
+If this is set, mail will not be delivered immediately when
+accepted. Same as calling masqmail with the -odq option.
+
+
+
+
+online_routes.name = list
+
+
+Replace name with a name to identify a connection. Set this
+to a filename (or a list of filenames) for the special route configuration for that
+connection. You will use that name to call masqmail with the
+ -qo option every time a connection to your ISP is set
+up.
+
+Example: Your ISP has the name FastNet. Then you write the
+following line in the main configuration:
+
+online_routes.FastNet = "/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route"
+
+/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route is the route configuration
+file, see masqmail.route. As soon as a link to FastNet has been set up, you
+call masqmail -qo FastNet. Masqmail will then
+read the specified file and send the mails.
+
+
+
+
+
+connect_route.name = list
+
+Old name for online_routes.
+
+
+
+
+
+local_net_route = file
+
+This is similar to online_routes.name but for the
+local net. Recipient addresses that are in local_nets will be
+routed using this route configuration. Main purpose is to define a
+mail server with mail_host in your local network. In simple
+environments this can be left unset. If unset, a default route
+configuration will be used.
+
+
+
+
+alias_file = file
+
+Set this to the location of your alias file. If unset, no aliasing
+will be done.
+
+
+
+
+alias_local_caseless = boolean
+
+If this is set, local parts in the alias file will be matched
+disregarding upper/lower case.
+
+
+
+
+pipe_fromline = boolean
+
+If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
+a pipe command is called after an alias expansion. Default is false.
+
+
+
+
+pipe_fromhack = boolean
+
+If this is set, each line beginning with 'From ' is replaced with '>From ' whenever
+a pipe command is called after an alias expansion. You probably want this if you have
+set pipe_fromline above. Default is false.
+
+
+
+
+mbox_default = string
+
+The default local delivery method. Can be one of mbox, mda or
+maildir (the latter only if maildir support is enabled at compile
+time). Default is mbox. You can override this for each user by using
+the mbox_users, mda_users or maildir_users options
+(see below).
+
+
+
+
+
+mbox_users = list
+
+A list of users which wish delivery to an mbox style mail folder.
+
+
+
+
+mda_users = list
+
+A list of users which wish local delivery to an mda. You have to
+set mda (see below) as well.
+
+
+
+
+maildir_users = list
+
+A list of users which wish delivery to a qmail style maildir. The
+path to maildir is ~/Maildir/. The maildir will be created if it
+does not exist.
+
+
+
+
+mda = expand string
+
+If you want local delivery to be transferred to an mda (Mail
+Delivery Agent), set this to a command. The argument will be expanded
+on delivery time, you can use variables beginning with a '$' sign,
+optionally enclosed in curly braces. Variables you can use are:
+uid - the unique message id. This is not necessarily identical with
+the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.
+received_host - the host the mail was received from
+ident - the ident, this is either the ident delivered by the ident
+protocol or the user id of the sender if the message was received locally.
+return_path_local - the local part of the return path (sender).
+return_path_domain - the domain part of the return path (sender).
+return_path - the complete return path (sender).
+rcpt_local - the local part of the recipient.
+rcpt_domain - the domain part of the recipient.
+rcpt - the complete recipient address.
+Example: mda="/usr/bin/procmail -Y -d ${rcpt_local}"
+For the mda, as for pipe commands, a few environment variables will
+be set as well. See masqmail. To use environment variables for the mda,
+the '$' sign has to be escaped with a backslash, otherwise they will
+be tried to be expanded with the internal variables.
+
+
+
+
+
+mda_fromline = boolean
+
+If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
+a message is delivered to an mda. Default is false.
+
+
+
+
+mda_fromhack = boolean
+
+If this is set, each line beginning with 'From ' is replaced with '>From ' whenever
+a message is delivered to an mda. You probably want this if you have
+set mda_fromline above. Default is false.
+
+
+
+
+online_detect = string
+
+Defines the method MasqMail uses to detect whether there is
+currently an online connection. It can have the
+values file, pipe or mserver.
+
+When it is set to file, MasqMail first checks for the
+existence of online_file (see below) and if it exists, it reads
+it. The content of the file should be the name of the current
+connection as defined with connect_route.name (without
+a trailing newline character).
+
+When it is set to pipe, MasqMail calls the executable given by
+the online_pipe option (see below) and reads the current online
+status from its standard output.
+
+When it is set to mserver, MasqMail connects to the
+masqdialer server using the value of mserver_iface and asks it
+whether a connection exists and for the name, which should be the name
+of the current connection as defined with connect_route.name.
+
+No matter how MasqMail detects the online status, only messages
+that are accepted at online time will be delivered using the
+connection. The spool still has to be emptied with masqmail -qo
+connection.
+
+
+
+
+online_file = file
+
+This is the name of the file checked for when MasqMail determines
+whether it is online. The file should only exist when there is
+currently a connection. Create it in your ip-up script with eg.
+
+echo -n > /tmp/connect_route
+chmod 0644 /tmp/connect_route
+
+Do not forget to delete it in your ip-down script.
+
+
+
+
+online_pipe = file
+
+This is the name of the executable which will be called to determine
+the online status. This executable should just print the name oif the current
+connection to the standard output and return a zero status code. masqmail assumes
+it is offline if the script returns with a non zero status. Simple example:
+
+#!/bin/sh
+
+[ -e /tmp/connect_route ] || exit 1
+cat /tmp/connect_route
+exit 0
+
+Of course, instead of the example above you could as well use file as
+the online detection method, but you can do something more sophisticated.
+
+
+
+
+mserver_iface = interface
+
+The interface the masqdialer server is listening to. Usually this
+will be "localhost:224" if mserver is running on the same host as
+masqmail. But using this option, you can also let masqmail run on
+another host by setting mserver_iface to another hostname,
+eg. "foo:224".
+
+
+
+
+get.name = file
+
+Replace name with a name to identify a get
+configuration. Set this to a filename for the get configuration. These
+files will be used to retrieve mail when called with the -g option.
+
+
+
+
+online_gets.name = list
+
+Replace name with a name to identify an online
+configuration. Set this to a filename (or a list of filenames) for the get configuration. These
+files will be used to retrieve mail when called with the -go option.
+
+
+
+
+ident_trusted_nets = list
+
+list is a list of networks of the form a.b.c.d/e
+(eg. 192.168.1.0/24), from which the ident given by the ident protocol
+will be trusted, so a user can delete his mail from the queue if the
+ident is identical to his login name.
+
+
+
+
+errmsg_file = file
+
+Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery failure
+reports. Variable parts within the template begin with a dollar sign and
+are identical to those which can be used as arguments for the mda command,
+see mda above. Additional information can be included with
+@failed_rcpts, @msg_headers and @msg_body, these must be at the
+beginning of a line and will be replaced with the list of the failed recipients,
+the message headers and the message body of the failed message.
+Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl.
+
+
+
+
+warnmsg_file = file
+
+Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery warning
+reports. It uses the same mechanisms for variables as errmsg_file,
+see above.
+
+Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/warnmsg.tpl.
+
+
+
+
+warn_intervals = list
+
+Set this to a list of time intervals, at which delivery warnings (starting
+with the receiving time of the message) shall be generated.
+A warning will only be generated just after an attempt to deliver the
+mail and if that attempt failed temporarily. So a warning may be generated after
+a longer time, if there was no attempt before.
+Default is "1h;4h;8h;1d;2d;3d"
+
+
+
+
+max_defer_time = time
+
+This is the maximum time, in which a temporarily failed mail will be kept
+in the spool. When this time is exceeded, it will be handled as a delivery failure,
+and the message will be bounced.
+The excedence of this time will only be noticed if the message was actually
+tried to be delivered. If, for example, the message can only be delivered when
+online, but you have not been online for that time, no bounce will be generated.
+Default is 4d (4 days)
+
+
+
+
+log_user = name
+
+Replace name with a valid local or remote mail address.
+If this option is not empty, then a copy of every mail,
+that passes trough the masqmail system will also be sent to the
+given mail address.
+For example you can feed your mails into a program like hypermail for
+archiving purpose by placing an appropriate pipe command in masqmail.alias
+
+
+
+
+
+Author
+
+masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth
+ You will find the newest version of
+masqmail at http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/ or search for it
+in freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net). There is also a mailing list,
+you will find information about it at masqmails main site.
+
+
+
+Bugs
+
+You should report them to the mailing list.
+
+
+
+See also
+
+
+masqmail, masqmail.route, masqmail.get
+
+
+
+
+
+Comments
+
+This man page was written using xml2man by the same
+author.
+
+
+
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