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added misc/list-versions This script helps to check if the versions numbers in the project are the same as the one for the release. This script is motivated by the 0.2.27 release in which masqmail introduces itself as being version 0.2.26.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:01:13 +0200
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meillo@56 9 <HTML>
meillo@56 10 <HEAD>
meillo@56 11 <TITLE>MasqMail - Manual
meillo@56 12 </TITLE>
meillo@56 13 </HEAD>
meillo@56 14 <BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
meillo@56 15
meillo@56 16 <center>
meillo@56 17 <table width="80%">
meillo@56 18 <tr><td>
meillo@56 19 <table width="100%" bgcolor="#0000aa" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
meillo@56 20 <tr>
meillo@56 21 <td>
meillo@56 22 <a href="manual.html">
meillo@56 23 <img width="20" src = "../images/u_arrow.gif" alt = "manual">
meillo@56 24 </a>
meillo@56 25 </td>
meillo@56 26 <td align=center width="100%"><font size="6" color = "#ffffff">Options</font></td>
meillo@56 27 <td>
meillo@56 28 <a href="./install.html">
meillo@56 29 <img width="20" src = "../images/l_arrow.gif" alt = "Installation">
meillo@56 30 </a>
meillo@56 31 </td>
meillo@56 32 <td>
meillo@56 33 <a href="./alias.html">
meillo@56 34 <img width="20" src = "../images/r_arrow.gif" alt = "Alias Format">
meillo@56 35 </a>
meillo@56 36 </td>
meillo@56 37 </tr>
meillo@56 38 </table>
meillo@56 39
meillo@56 40
meillo@56 41 <p>Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same
meillo@56 42 command line options, but not all are implemented. There are also two
meillo@56 43 additional options, which are unique to masqmail (-qo
meillo@56 44 &lt;connection&gt; and -g) </p>
meillo@56 45
meillo@56 46 <b>-- </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 47
meillo@56 48 <p>Not a 'real' option, it means that all following arguments are to
meillo@56 49 be understood as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a
meillo@56 50 leading dash '-'. Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option.</p>
meillo@56 51
meillo@56 52 <b>-bd </b>option (daemon):<br>
meillo@56 53
meillo@56 54 <p>Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not
meillo@56 55 configured differently. This is usually used in the startup script and
meillo@56 56 together with the -q option (see below).</p>
meillo@56 57
meillo@56 58 <b>-bi </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 59
meillo@56 60 <p>Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this
meillo@56 61 option. Masqmail ignores it. Masqmail reads directly from the file
meillo@56 62 given with <b>alias_file</b> in the config file.</p>
meillo@56 63
meillo@56 64 <b>-bp </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 65
meillo@56 66 <p>Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as
meillo@56 67 'mailq'.</p>
meillo@56 68
meillo@56 69 <b>-bs </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 70
meillo@56 71 <p>Accept SMTP commands from stdin. Some mailers (eg pine) use this
meillo@56 72 option as an interface. It can also be used to call masqmail from
meillo@56 73 inetd, according to Tomislav Filipcic this works.</p>
meillo@56 74
meillo@56 75 <b>-B&lt;arg&gt;</b>option:<br>
meillo@56 76
meillo@56 77 <p>arg is usually 8BITMIME. Some mailers use this to indicate that the
meillo@56 78 message contains characters &gt; 127. Masqmail is 8-bit clean and
meillo@56 79 ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm, which is very
meillo@56 80 painful ;-). Note though that this violates some conventions: masqmail
meillo@56 81 <em>does not</em> convert 8 bit messages to any MIME format if it
meillo@56 82 encounters a mail server which does not advertise its 8BITMIME capability,
meillo@56 83 masqmail does not advertise this itself. This is the same practice as
meillo@56 84 that of exim (but different to sendmail).</p>
meillo@56 85
meillo@56 86 <p>This <em>may</em> change in the future, but do not rely on it.</p>
meillo@56 87
meillo@56 88 <b>-C&lt;filename&gt;</b>option:<br>
meillo@56 89
meillo@56 90 <p>Use another configuration than /etc/masqmail.conf. Useful for
meillo@56 91 debugging purposes.</p>
meillo@56 92
meillo@56 93 <b>-d &lt;number&gt; </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 94
meillo@56 95 <p>Set the debug level. This takes precedence before the value of
meillo@56 96 <b>debug_level</b> in the configuration file. Read the warning in the
meillo@56 97 description of the latter.</p>
meillo@56 98
meillo@56 99 <b>-g </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 100
meillo@56 101 <p>Get mail, using the configurations given with
meillo@56 102 <b>get.&lt;name&gt;</b> in the main configuration.</p>
meillo@56 103
meillo@56 104 <b>-i </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 105
meillo@56 106 <p>Same as <b>-oi</b>, see below.</p>
meillo@56 107
meillo@56 108 <b>-oem </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 109
meillo@56 110 <p>If the <b>-oi</b> ist not also given, always return with a non zero
meillo@56 111 return code. Maybe someone tells me what this is good for... </p>
meillo@56 112
meillo@56 113 <b>-odb </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 114
meillo@56 115 <p>Deliver in background. Masqmail always does this.</p>
meillo@56 116
meillo@56 117 <b>-odq </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 118
meillo@56 119 <p>Do not attempt to deliver immediately. Any messages will be queued
meillo@56 120 until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers
meillo@56 121 them. You get the same effect by setting the <i>do_queue</i> option in
meillo@56 122 /etc/masqmail.conf.</p>
meillo@56 123
meillo@56 124 <b>-oi </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 125
meillo@56 126 <p>A dot as a single character in a line does <em>not</em> terminate
meillo@56 127 the message.</p>
meillo@56 128
meillo@56 129 <b>-q </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 130
meillo@56 131 <p>If not given with an argument, run a queue process, ie. try to
meillo@56 132 deliver all messages in the queue. Masqmail sends only to those
meillo@56 133 addresses that are on the <em>local</em> net, not to those that are
meillo@56 134 outside. Use -qo &lt;connection&gt; for those.</p>
meillo@56 135
meillo@56 136 <p>If you have configured inetd to start masqmail, you can use this
meillo@56 137 option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals, to mimic
meillo@56 138 the same effect as starting masqmail with -bd -q30m.</p>
meillo@56 139
meillo@56 140 <p>An argument may be a time interval ie. a numerical value followed
meillo@56 141 by one of the letters. s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds,
meillo@56 142 minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. Example: -q30m. Masqmail
meillo@56 143 starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started
meillo@56 144 automatically once in this time interval. This is usually used
meillo@56 145 together with -bd (see above).</p>
meillo@56 146
meillo@56 147 <b>-qo&lt;name&gt; </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 148
meillo@56 149 <p>Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your
meillo@56 150 script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up
meillo@56 151 (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the
meillo@56 152 specified route configuration is read and the queued mail with
meillo@56 153 destinations on the internet will be sent. The <b>name</b> is defined
meillo@56 154 in the configuration (see <b>connect_route.&lt;name&gt;</b>).</p>
meillo@56 155
meillo@56 156 <p>If called without &lt;name&gt, the online status is determined with
meillo@56 157 the configured method (see <b>online_detect</b> in <a
meillo@56 158 href="config.html">config.html</a>)</p>
meillo@56 159
meillo@56 160 <b>-t </b>option:<br>
meillo@56 161
meillo@56 162 <p>Read recipients from headers. Delete 'Bcc:' headers. If any
meillo@56 163 arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses and
meillo@56 164 the message will <em>not</em> be sent to these.</p>
meillo@56 165 </td></tr>
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meillo@56 167 <tr><td>
meillo@56 168 <p>
meillo@56 169 <hr>
meillo@56 170 <address><a href = "mailto:kurth@innominate.de">Oliver Kurth</a></address>
meillo@56 171 Last modified: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000
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