meillo@181: .TH masqmail 8 2011-06-03 masqmail-0.2.29 "Maintenance Commands" meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH NAME meillo@0: masqmail \- An offline Mail Transfer Agent meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH SYNOPSIS meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-C \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-bd\fR] [\fB\-q\fIinterval\fR] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-bs\fR] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-bp\fR] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-q\fR] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-qo \fR[\fIname\fR]] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-g \fR[\fIname\fR]] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-go \fR[\fIname\fR]] meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-t\fR] [\fB\-oi\fR] [\fB\-f \fIaddress\fR] [\fB\-\-\fR] \fIaddress... meillo@0: meillo@34: \fB/usr/sbin/mailq\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH DESCRIPTION meillo@0: meillo@34: Masqmail is a mail server designed for hosts that do not have a permanent internet connection meillo@34: e.g. a home network or a single host at home. meillo@34: It has special support for connections to different ISPs. meillo@34: It replaces sendmail or other MTAs such as qmail or exim. meillo@155: It can also act as a POP3 client (if this functionality has not been disabled at meillo@155: build configuration time). meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH OPTIONS meillo@0: meillo@34: Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same command line options, meillo@34: but not all are implemented. meillo@34: There are also two additional options, which are unique to masqmail meillo@34: (\fB\-qo \fIconnection\fR and \fB\-g\fR) meillo@34: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-\-\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Not a `real' option, it means that all following arguments are to be understood meillo@34: as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a leading dash `\-'. meillo@34: Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-bd\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not configured differently. meillo@34: This is usually used in the startup script at system boot and together with meillo@34: the \fB\-q\fR option (see below). meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-bi\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this option. meillo@34: Masqmail ignores it. meillo@34: Masqmail reads directly from the file given with `alias_file' in the config file. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-bp\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as `mailq'. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-bs\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Accept SMTP commands from stdin. meillo@34: Some mailers (e.g. pine) use this option as an interface. meillo@34: It can also be used to call masqmail from inetd. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-B \fIarg\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: \fIarg\fR is usually 8BITMIME. meillo@34: Some mailers use this to indicate that the message contains characters > 127. meillo@34: Masqmail is 8-bit clean and ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm, meillo@34: which is very painful ;-). meillo@34: Note though that this violates some conventions: meillo@34: masqmail does not convert 8 bit messages to any MIME format if it encounters meillo@34: a mail server which does not advertise its 8BITMIME capability, meillo@34: masqmail does not advertise this itself. meillo@34: This is the same practice as that of exim (but different to sendmail). meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-bV \fR meillo@0: meillo@0: Show version information. meillo@34: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-C \fIfilename\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Use another configuration than \fI/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf\fR. meillo@34: Useful for debugging purposes. meillo@34: If not invoked by a privileged user, masqmail will drop all privileges. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-d \fInumber\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Set the debug level. meillo@34: This takes precedence before the value of `debug_level' in the configuration file. meillo@34: Read the warning in the description of the latter. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-f [\fIaddress\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Set the return path address to \fIaddress\fR. meillo@34: Only root, the user mail and anyone in group mail is allowed to do that. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-F [\fIstring\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Set the full sender name (in the From: header) to \fIstring\fR. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-g [\fIname\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Get mail (using pop3 or apop), meillo@34: using the configurations given with get.\fIname\fR in the main configuration. meillo@34: Without \fIname\fR, all get configurations will be used. meillo@34: See also \fBmasqmail.get(5)\fR meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-go [\fIinterval\fB] [\fIname\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Can be followed by a connection name. meillo@34: Use this option in your script which starts as soon as a link to the internet meillo@34: has been set up (usually ip-up). meillo@34: When masqmail is called with this option, the specified get configuration(s) meillo@34: is(are) read and mail will be retrieved from servers on the internet. meillo@34: The \fIname\fR is defined in the configuration (see \fBonline_gets.\fIname\fR). meillo@0: meillo@34: If called with an interval option (recognized by a digit as the first characater), meillo@34: masqmail starts as a daemon and tries to get mail in these intervals. meillo@34: It checks for the online status first. meillo@34: Example: `masqmail \-go 5m' will retrieve mail every five minutes. meillo@0: meillo@155: If called without \fIname\fR, the online status is determined with the configured method meillo@34: (see \fBonline_detect\fR in \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR). meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-i\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Same as \fB\-oi\fR, see below. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-Mrm \fIlist\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Remove given messages from the queue. meillo@34: Only allowed for privileged users. meillo@45: The identifiers of messages are listed in the output of meillo@99: \fImasqmail \-bp\fP (\fImailq\fR). meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-oem\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: If the \fB\-oi\fR ist not also given, always return with a non zero return code. meillo@34: Maybe someone tells me what this is good for... meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-odb\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Deliver in background. meillo@34: Masqmail always does this, which makes this option pretty much useless. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-odq\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Do not attempt to deliver immediately. meillo@34: Any messages will be queued until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers them. meillo@34: You get the same effect by setting the do_queue option in /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-oi\fR meillo@0: meillo@0: A dot as a single character in a line does not terminate the message. meillo@34: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-q [\fIinterval\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: If not given with an argument, run a queue process, i.e. try to deliver all messages in the queue. meillo@34: Masqmail sends only to those addresses that are on the local net, not to those that are outside. meillo@34: Use \fB\-qo\fR for those. meillo@0: meillo@34: If you have configured inetd to start masqmail, meillo@34: you can use this option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals, meillo@34: to mimic the same effect as starting masqmail with \fB\-bd \-q30m\fR. meillo@0: meillo@34: An argument may be a time interval i.e. a numerical value followed by one of the letters. meillo@34: s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. meillo@34: Example: \fB\-q30m\fR. meillo@34: Masqmail starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started automatically meillo@34: once in this time interval. meillo@34: This is usually used together with \fB\-bd\fR (see above). meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-qo [\fIname\fB]\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Can be followed by a connection name. meillo@34: Use this option in your script which starts as soon as a link to the internet meillo@34: has been set up (usually ip-up). meillo@34: When masqmail is called with this option, the specified route configuration meillo@34: is read and the queued mail with destinations on the internet will be sent. meillo@34: The \fIname\fR is defined in the configuration (see \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR). meillo@0: meillo@34: If called without \fIname\fR the online status is determined with the configured meillo@34: method (see \fBonline_detect\fR in \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR) meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-t\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Read recipients from headers. meillo@34: Delete `Bcc:' headers. meillo@106: (Since 0.2.25, masqmail deletes Bcc: headers in all cases.) meillo@34: If any arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses meillo@103: and the message will not be sent to these, meillo@103: although they might appear in To:, Cc:, or Bcc: headers. meillo@103: I.e. the set of argument recipients is ``substracted'' from the set of header recipients. meillo@103: meillo@103: This behavior is similar to exim's and smail's. meillo@103: Postfix, in contrast, adds the arguments to the set of header recipients. meillo@103: Sendmail seems to behave differently, depending on the version. meillo@103: See exim(8) for further information. meillo@0: meillo@0: .TP meillo@34: \fB\-v\fR meillo@0: meillo@34: Log also to stdout. meillo@34: Currently, some log messages are marked as `write to stdout' and additionally, meillo@34: all messages with priority `LOG_ALERT' and `LOG_WARNING' will be written to stdout meillo@34: if this option is given. It is disabled in daemon mode. meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH ENVIRONMENT FOR PIPES AND MDAS meillo@0: meillo@34: For security reasons, before any pipe command from an alias expansion or an mda is called, meillo@34: the environment variables will be completely discarded and newly set up. These are: meillo@0: meillo@34: SENDER, RETURN_PATH \(en the return path. meillo@0: meillo@34: SENDER_DOMAIN \(en the domain part of the return path. meillo@0: meillo@34: SENDER_LOCAL \(en the local part of the return path. meillo@0: meillo@34: RECEIVED_HOST \(en the host the message was received from (unless local). meillo@0: meillo@34: LOCAL_PART, USER, LOGNAME \(en the local part of the (original) recipient. meillo@0: meillo@34: MESSAGE_ID \(en the unique message id. meillo@34: This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header. meillo@0: meillo@34: QUALIFY_DOMAIN \(en the domain which will be appended to unqualified addresses. meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH FILES meillo@0: meillo@34: \fI/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf\fR is the main configuration for masqmail. meillo@34: Depending on the settings in this file, you will also have other configuration meillo@34: files in \fI/etc/masqmail/\fR. meillo@0: meillo@34: \fI/var/spool/masqmail/\fR is the spool directory where masqmail stores meillo@34: its spooled messages and the uniq pop ids. meillo@0: meillo@34: \fI/var/spool/mail/\fR is the directory where locally delivered mail will be put, meillo@34: if not configured differently in \fImasqmail.conf\fR. meillo@0: meillo@34: \fI/var/log/masqmail/\fR is the directory where masqmail stores its log mesages. meillo@34: This can also be somewhere else if configured differently by your sysadmin or the package mantainer. meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH CONFORMING TO meillo@0: meillo@0: RFC 821, 822, 1869, 1870, 2197, 2554 (SMTP) meillo@0: meillo@0: RFC 1725, 1939 (POP3) meillo@0: meillo@0: RFC 1321 (MD5) meillo@0: meillo@0: RFC 2195 (CRAM-MD5) meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH AUTHOR meillo@0: meillo@34: Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth. meillo@34: It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke . meillo@0: meillo@95: You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR. meillo@26: There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site. meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH BUGS meillo@0: meillo@34: Please report them to the mailing list. meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH SEE ALSO meillo@0: meillo@34: \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.get(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.aliases(5)\fR