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author meillo@marmaro.de
date Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:51:31 +0100 (2008-10-27)
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1 Here a two test programs: local.sh and smtpout.sh. They both send
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2 three mails, using different options. Run them from within this
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3 directory, preferably NOT as root, but you got to have write
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4 permission for this directory.
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6 local.sh sends mail accepted from stdin and sends them to a fake local
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7 mailbox, using your login name. If it works, there should be a file
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8 named with your login name with the mails. You can look at it with cat
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9 or less, or with an ordinary mail program.
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11 smtpout.sh sends mail accepted from stdin and sends them to your local
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12 MTA, so use it only if you have an MTA running on your box (sendmail,
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13 exim, qmail or whatever, or masqmail when you have it already
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14 installed). If it works, you should get three mails.
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16 The scripts assume that your login name corresponds to your mailbox
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17 (quite probable) and that your MTA listens on port 25 with the
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18 interface which corresponds to the hostname as returned by the shell
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19 command "hostname" (without quotes...), also very probable. They are
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20 created with make from test.templ. They use a special configuration
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21 (test.conf) for masqmail, which is also created with make from
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22 conf.templ.
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24 Two log files, masqmail.log and debug.log will also be created within
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25 this directory. They may give some information if anything went wrong.
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27 If the log files reveal that your MTA is not willing to relay, you may
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28 have to qualify the hostname: Say
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30 sed s/RECV_HOST/foo.bar.com/ test.templ > smtpout.sh
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32 where you set your fully qualified host name for foo.bar.com.
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34 If they do not work, there could be some problem with either the test
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35 programs, the configuration file or masqmail itself. If you have
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36 installed masqmail successfully and these scripts do not work, do not
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37 worry too much :-).