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1 <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>

2 <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "man.dtd">

4 <manpage name="masqmail" section="8" desc="An offline Mail Transfer Agent">

6 <synopsis>

7 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-C <arg>file</arg>] [-odq] [-bd] [-q<arg>interval</arg>]</cmd>

8 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-bs]</cmd>

9 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-bp]</cmd>

10 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-q]</cmd>

11 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-qo [<arg>name</arg>]]</cmd>

12 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-g [<arg>name</arg>]]</cmd>

13 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-odq] [-go [<arg>name</arg>]]</cmd>

14 <cmd>/usr/sbin/masqmail [-t] [-oi] [-f <arg>address</arg>] [--] <arg>address...</arg></cmd>

15 <cmd>/usr/sbin/mailq</cmd>

16 </synopsis>

18 <description>

19 MasqMail is a mail server designed for hosts that do

20 not have a permanent internet connection eg. a home network or a

21 single host at home. It has special support for connections to

22 different ISPs. It replaces sendmail or other MTAs such as qmail or

23 exim. It can also act as a pop3 client.

24 </description>

26 <options>

27 Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same

28 command line options, but not all are implemented. There are also two

29 additional options, which are unique to masqmail (-qo <arg>connection</arg> and -g)

30

32 <option>

33 <opt>--</opt>

34 <optdesc>Not a 'real' option, it means that all following arguments are to

35 be understood as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a

36 leading dash '-'. Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option.</optdesc>

37 </option>

39 <option>

40 <opt>-bd</opt>

41 <optdesc>Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not

42 configured differently. This is usually used in the startup script at system boot and

43 together with the -q option (see below).</optdesc>

44 </option>

46 <option>

47 <opt>-bi</opt>

48 <optdesc>Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this

49 option. Masqmail ignores it. Masqmail reads directly from the file

50 given with alias_file in the config file.</optdesc>

51 </option>

53 <option>

54 <opt>-bp</opt>

55 <optdesc>Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as

56 'mailq'.</optdesc>

57 </option>

59 <option>

60 <opt>-bs</opt>

61 <optdesc>Accept SMTP commands from stdin. Some mailers (eg pine) use this

62 option as an interface. It can also be used to call masqmail from

63 inetd.</optdesc>

64 </option>

66 <option>

67 <opt>-B <arg>arg</arg></opt>

68 <optdesc><arg>arg</arg> is usually 8BITMIME. Some mailers use this

69 to indicate that the message contains characters > 127. Masqmail is

70 8-bit clean and ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm,

71 which is very painful ;-). Note though that this violates some

72 conventions: masqmail does not convert 8 bit messages to any

73 MIME format if it encounters a mail server which does not advertise

74 its 8BITMIME capability, masqmail does not advertise this itself. This

75 is the same practice as that of exim (but different to

76 sendmail).</optdesc></option>

78 <option>

79 <opt>-bV </opt>

80 <optdesc>Show version information.

81 </optdesc>

82 </option>

84 <option>

85 <opt>-C </opt><arg>filename</arg>

86 <optdesc>Use another configuration than <file>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</file>. Useful for

87 debugging purposes. If not invoked by a privileged user, masqmail will drop all privileges.

88 </optdesc>

89 </option>

91 <option>

92 <opt>-d <arg>number</arg></opt>

93 <optdesc>

94 Set the debug level. This takes precedence before the value of

95 debug_level in the configuration file. Read the warning in the

96 description of the latter.

97

98 </optdesc>

99 </option>

100

101 <option>

102 <opt>-f [<arg>address</arg>]</opt>

103 <optdesc>

104 Set the return path address to <arg>address</arg>. Only root, the

105 user mail and anyoune in group trusted is allowed to do that.

106 </optdesc>

107 </option>

108

109 <option>

110 <opt>-F [<arg>string</arg>]</opt>

111 <optdesc>

112 Set the full sender name (in the From: header)

113 to <arg>string</arg>.

114 </optdesc>

115 </option>

116

117 <option>

118 <opt>-g [<arg>name</arg>]</opt>

119 <optdesc>

120 Get mail (using pop3 or apop), using the configurations given

121 with get.<arg>name</arg> in the main configuration. Without <arg>name</arg>,

122 all get configurations will be used. See also <manref

123 name = "masqmail.get" section="5" href="masqmail.get.5.html"/>

124 </optdesc>

125 </option>

126

127 <option>

128 <opt>-go [<arg>interval</arg>] [<arg>name</arg>]</opt>

129 <optdesc>

130 Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your

131 script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up

132 (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the

133 specified get configuration(s) is(are) read and mail will be

134 retrieved from servers on the internet.

135 The <arg>name</arg> is defined

136 in the configuration (see <opt>online_gets.<arg>name</arg></opt>).

137

138 If called with an interval option (recognized by a digit

139 as the first characater), masqmail starts as a daemon and tries to

140 get mail in these intervals. It checks for the online status first.

141 Example: masqmail -go 5m will retrieve mail

142 all five minutes.

143

144 If called without <arg>name</arg> the online status is determined with

145 the configured method (see <opt>online_detect</opt> in <a

146 href="config.html">config.html</a>).

147

148 </optdesc>

149 </option>

150

151 <option>

152 <opt>-i</opt>

153 <optdesc>Same as -oi, see below.</optdesc>

154 </option>

155

156 <option>

157 <opt>-Mrm <arg>list</arg></opt>

158 <optdesc>Remove given messages from the queue. Only allowed for privileged users.</optdesc>

159 </option>

160

161 <option>

162 <opt>-oem</opt>

163 <optdesc>If the -oi ist not also given, always return with a non zero

164 return code. Maybe someone tells me what this is good for...</optdesc>

165 </option>

166

167 <option>

168 <opt>-odb</opt>

169 <optdesc>Deliver in background. Masqmail always does this, which

170 makes this option pretty much useless.</optdesc>

171 </option>

172

173 <option>

174 <opt>-odq</opt>

175 <optdesc>Do not attempt to deliver immediately. Any messages will be queued

176 until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers

177 them. You get the same effect by setting the do_queue option in

178 /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf.</optdesc>

179 </option>

180

181 <option>

182 <opt>-oi</opt>

183 <optdesc>A dot as a single character in a line does not terminate

184 the message.</optdesc>

185 </option>

186

187 <option>

188 <opt>-q [<arg>interval</arg>]</opt>

189 <optdesc>If not given with an argument, run a queue process, ie. try to

190 deliver all messages in the queue. Masqmail sends only to those

191 addresses that are on the local net, not to those that are

192 outside. Use -qo for those.

193

194 If you have configured inetd to start masqmail, you can use this

195 option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals, to mimic

196 the same effect as starting masqmail with -bd -q30m.

197

198 An argument may be a time interval ie. a numerical value followed

199 by one of the letters. s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds,

200 minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. Example: -q30m. Masqmail

201 starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started

202 automatically once in this time interval. This is usually used

203 together with -bd (see above).

204

205 </optdesc>

206 </option>

207

208 <option>

209 <opt>-qo [<arg>name</arg>]</opt>

210 <optdesc>

211 Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your

212 script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up

213 (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the

214 specified route configuration is read and the queued mail with

215 destinations on the internet will be sent. The <arg>name</arg> is defined

216 in the configuration (see <opt>online_routes.<arg>name</arg></opt>).

217

218 If called without <arg>name</arg> the online status is determined with

219 the configured method (see <opt>online_detect</opt> in <a

220 href="config.html">config.html</a>)

221

222 </optdesc>

223 </option>

224

225 <option>

226 <opt>-t</opt>

227 <optdesc>Read recipients from headers. Delete 'Bcc:' headers. If any

228 arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses and

229 the message will not be sent to these.</optdesc>

230 </option>

231

232 <option>

233 <opt>-v</opt>

234 <optdesc>Log also to stdout. Currently, some log messages are

235 marked as 'write to stdout' and additionally, all messages with

236 priority 'LOG_ALERT' and 'LOG_WARNING' will be written to stdout

237 if this option is given. It is disabled in daemon mode.

238 </optdesc>

239 </option>

240

241 </options>

242

243 <section name = "Environment for pipes and mdas">

244

245 For security reasons, before any pipe command from an alias

246 expansion or an mda is called, the environment variables will be

247 completely discarded and newly set up. These are:

248 SENDER, RETURN_PATH - the return path.

249 SENDER_DOMAIN - the domain part of the return path.

250 SENDER_LOCAL - the local part of the return path.

251 RECEIVED_HOST - the host the message was received from (unless local).

252 LOCAL_PART, USER, LOGNAME - the local part of the (original) recipient.

253 MESSAGE_ID - the unique message id. This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.

254 QUALIFY_DOMAIN - the domain which will be appended to unqualified addresses.

255

256 </section>

257

258 <section name = "Files">

259 <file>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</file> is the main configuration

260 for masqmail. Depending on the settings in this file, you will also

261 have other configuration files in <file>/etc/masqmail/</file>.

262 <file>/etc/aliases</file> is the alias file, if not set differently

263 in <file>/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf</file>.

264 <file>/var/spool/masqmail/</file> is the spool directory where masqmail

265 stores its spooled messages and the uniq pop ids.

266 <file>/var/spool/mail/</file> is the directory where locally delivered mail will be put, if not configured differently in <file>masqmail.conf</file>.

267 <file>/var/log/masqmail/</file> is the directory where masqmail stores

268 its log mesages. This can also be somewhere else if configured

269 differently by your sysadmin or the package mantainer.

270 </section>

271

272 <section name="Conforming to">

273 RFC 821, 822, 1869, 1870, 2197, 2554 (SMTP)

274 RFC 1725, 1939 (POP3)

275 RFC 1321 (MD5)

276 RFC 2195 (CRAM-MD5)

277 </section>

278

279 <section name = "Author">

280 masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth

281 <oku@masqmail.cx>You will find the newest version of

282 masqmail at <url href="http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/"/> or search for it

283 in freshmeat (<url href="http://www.freshmeat.net"/>). There is also a mailing list,

284 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.

285 </section>

286

287 <section name = "Bugs">

288 You should report them to the mailing list.

289 </section>

290

291 <section name = "See also">

292

293 <manref name="masqmail.conf" section="5" href="masqmail.conf.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail.route" section="5" href="masqmail.route.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail.get" section="5" href="masqmail.get.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail.aliases" section="5" href="masqmail.aliases.5.html"/>

294

295 </section>

296

297 <section name = "Comments">

298 This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"

299 href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by the same author.

300 </section>

301

302 </manpage>