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+ − 1 MasqMail README
+ − 2
+ − 3 MasqMail is a mail server designed for hosts that are not permanently
+ − 4 connected to the internet. It handles outgoing messages, i.e. those
+ − 5 that are to be sent over the non-permanent link (usually a ppp or slip
+ − 6 connection over a modem or ISDN adapter) specially and delivers them
+ − 7 only when explicitely told to do so. There is support for multiple
+ − 8 providers, it is possible to write different configurations for each
+ − 9 one. The configuration chosen is selected at delivery time, so that if
+ − 10 for example a delivery of a message failed while connected with
+ − 11 provider 1, it may be delivered when connected to provider 2. For each
+ − 12 provider another mail host (or none) can be specified.
+ − 13
+ − 14 MasqMail provides (a yet simple) mechanism to rewrite headers, also
+ − 15 depending on the current connection. This makes it possible to deliver
+ − 16 messages with a return address on the local network which will be
+ − 17 rewitten at delivery time. The purpose of this is:
+ − 18
+ − 19 - to allow delivery failure messages that are produced on the local
+ − 20 network to be delivered immediately, while those that are produced
+ − 21 outside can be delivered to a mailbox on the internet, to be retrieved
+ − 22 later.
+ − 23
+ − 24 - to give mail servers a return address which they can accept if they
+ − 25 check for spam mail. Many mail servers require a return address which
+ − 26 has the same domain as the server it is getting the message from. If
+ − 27 you normally connect to only one provider, this is usually not a
+ − 28 problem as you can configure your mailer to a fixed address (but then
+ − 29 there is still the problem with the failure messages...), but it is a
+ − 30 problem if you use different ones from time to time.
+ − 31
+ − 32 MasqMail shall once be a complete replacement for sendmail (or other
+ − 33 MTAs such as exim, qmail or smail) on a local network, but it is NOT
+ − 34 supposed to be installed in a network with a permanent internet
+ − 35 connection (at least if it is not behind a secure firewall) because
+ − 36 it has no ability to check for undesired relaying or spam filtering.
+ − 37
+ − 38 Missing, but soon to be realized features:
+ − 39
+ − 40 - .forward file support (alias file is supported)
+ − 41 - mailer demon messages (mail from the server in cases of delivery failures
+ − 42 or malformed addresses)
+ − 43
+ − 44 Future plans are:
+ − 45
+ − 46 - initiate connections on its own
+ − 47 - integration to the masqdialer system (mserver) as an option
+ − 48 - possibly a pop3 server
+ − 49
+ − 50 For installation instructions, see INSTALL.
+ − 51
+ − 52 Bugs: MasqMail is still very young, and there are probably at lot of
+ − 53 bugs in it. I need every bug reported to me! If you do, please send me
+ − 54 the configuration files, the logs, the version, and a good description
+ − 55 on how to reproduce the error. The more bug reports I get, the better
+ − 56 masqmail will get!
+ − 57
+ − 58 CREDITS:
+ − 59 --------
+ − 60
+ − 61 I would like to thank everyone who has submitted suggestions and bug
+ − 62 reports. Special thanks to:
+ − 63
+ − 64 Gregor Hoffleit for beta testing and his suggestions for delivering
+ − 65 mail immediately when online.
+ − 66 Gregor Hoffleit again for supplying a patch which made maqmail work with mutt.
+ − 67 And again for making the Debian package. And more patches.
+ − 68
+ − 69 Dale Perkel for patiently trying to make MM compile and run with libc5 and
+ − 70 various bug reports.
+ − 71
+ − 72 Andre Masloch for finding most bugs.
+ − 73
+ − 74 Edouard G. Parmelan for many patches and bug reports
+ − 75
+ − 76 Iain Lea for the Redhat spec file
+ − 77
+ − 78 ...and many others
+ − 79 --
+ − 80 Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>
+ − 81 http://masqmail.cx/
+ − 82 last change: Feb. 3, 2000
