meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: <HTML> meillo@56: <HEAD> meillo@56: <TITLE>MasqMail - Manual meillo@56: </TITLE> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: <BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> meillo@56: meillo@56: <center> meillo@56: <table width="80%"> meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <table width="100%" bgcolor="#0000aa" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> meillo@56: <tr> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="manual.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/u_arrow.gif" alt = "manual"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: <td align=center width="100%"><font size="6" color = "#ffffff">Options</font></td> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="./install.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/l_arrow.gif" alt = "Installation"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="./alias.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/r_arrow.gif" alt = "Alias Format"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: </tr> meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same meillo@56: command line options, but not all are implemented. There are also two meillo@56: additional options, which are unique to masqmail (-qo meillo@56: <connection> and -g) </p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-- </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Not a 'real' option, it means that all following arguments are to meillo@56: be understood as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a meillo@56: leading dash '-'. Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-bd </b>option (daemon):<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not meillo@56: configured differently. This is usually used in the startup script and meillo@56: together with the -q option (see below).</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-bi </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this meillo@56: option. Masqmail ignores it. Masqmail reads directly from the file meillo@56: given with <b>alias_file</b> in the config file.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-bp </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as meillo@56: 'mailq'.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-bs </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Accept SMTP commands from stdin. Some mailers (eg pine) use this meillo@56: option as an interface. It can also be used to call masqmail from meillo@56: inetd, according to Tomislav Filipcic this works.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-B<arg></b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>arg is usually 8BITMIME. Some mailers use this to indicate that the meillo@56: message contains characters > 127. Masqmail is 8-bit clean and meillo@56: ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm, which is very meillo@56: painful ;-). Note though that this violates some conventions: masqmail meillo@56: <em>does not</em> convert 8 bit messages to any MIME format if it meillo@56: encounters a mail server which does not advertise its 8BITMIME capability, meillo@56: masqmail does not advertise this itself. This is the same practice as meillo@56: that of exim (but different to sendmail).</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>This <em>may</em> change in the future, but do not rely on it.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-C<filename></b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Use another configuration than /etc/masqmail.conf. Useful for meillo@56: debugging purposes.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-d <number> </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Set the debug level. This takes precedence before the value of meillo@56: <b>debug_level</b> in the configuration file. Read the warning in the meillo@56: description of the latter.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-g </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Get mail, using the configurations given with meillo@56: <b>get.<name></b> in the main configuration.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-i </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Same as <b>-oi</b>, see below.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-oem </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>If the <b>-oi</b> ist not also given, always return with a non zero meillo@56: return code. Maybe someone tells me what this is good for... </p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-odb </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Deliver in background. Masqmail always does this.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-odq </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Do not attempt to deliver immediately. Any messages will be queued meillo@56: until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers meillo@56: them. You get the same effect by setting the <i>do_queue</i> option in meillo@56: /etc/masqmail.conf.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-oi </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>A dot as a single character in a line does <em>not</em> terminate meillo@56: the message.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-q </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>If not given with an argument, run a queue process, ie. try to meillo@56: deliver all messages in the queue. Masqmail sends only to those meillo@56: addresses that are on the <em>local</em> net, not to those that are meillo@56: outside. Use -qo <connection> for those.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>If you have configured inetd to start masqmail, you can use this meillo@56: option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals, to mimic meillo@56: the same effect as starting masqmail with -bd -q30m.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>An argument may be a time interval ie. a numerical value followed meillo@56: by one of the letters. s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds, meillo@56: minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. Example: -q30m. Masqmail meillo@56: starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started meillo@56: automatically once in this time interval. This is usually used meillo@56: together with -bd (see above).</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-qo<name> </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Can be followed by a connection name. Use this option in your meillo@56: script which starts as soon as a link to the internet has been set up meillo@56: (usually ip-up). When masqmail is called with this option, the meillo@56: specified route configuration is read and the queued mail with meillo@56: destinations on the internet will be sent. The <b>name</b> is defined meillo@56: in the configuration (see <b>connect_route.<name></b>).</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>If called without <name>, the online status is determined with meillo@56: the configured method (see <b>online_detect</b> in <a meillo@56: href="config.html">config.html</a>)</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <b>-t </b>option:<br> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Read recipients from headers. Delete 'Bcc:' headers. If any meillo@56: arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses and meillo@56: the message will <em>not</em> be sent to these.</p> meillo@56: </td></tr> meillo@56: meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <p> meillo@56: <hr> meillo@56: <address><a href = "mailto:kurth@innominate.de">Oliver Kurth</a></address> meillo@56: Last modified: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000 meillo@56: <br> meillo@56: This page was created using <a href="http://www.freddyfrog.com/hacks/genpage/">Genpage</a> - Version: 1.0.6 meillo@56: </p> meillo@56: meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: </center> meillo@56: meillo@56: </BODY> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: