meillo@67: Howto report bugs meillo@67: ================= meillo@67: meillo@67: All non-trivial software has bugs and so does masqmail. meillo@67: meillo@67: If you discover a bug then please report it. Your bug reports are an meillo@67: important help in improving masqmail. meillo@67: meillo@67: Valuable bug report include the following information. The first two meillo@67: are essential, the others can also be added on request. meillo@67: meillo@67: - A good description of what you consider to be the bug. meillo@67: meillo@67: - The version of masqmail that was used. (The output of: masqmail -bV). meillo@67: meillo@67: - A description on how to reproduce it. This includes information on meillo@67: other software that is involved. meillo@67: meillo@67: - The configuration files. These are probably the contents of meillo@67: /etc/masqmail/*. Don't forget to substitute confidential data with meillo@67: placeholders. meillo@67: meillo@67: - The relevant log files. Have a look at the value of use_syslog and meillo@67: log_dir in masqmail.conf. If use_syslog is enabled, the files are meillo@67: probably some of /var/log/mail*. If you don't use syslog, then the meillo@67: files reside unter the path assigned to log_dir, or by default in meillo@67: /var/log/masqmail/. Take care to substitute confidential data if you meillo@67: send debug files. (It's good to run masqmail with `-d 5' or `-d 6' to meillo@67: generate debugging data that may help to track down the bug. meillo@67: meillo@67: Report the bug to the mailing list . You don't meillo@67: have to be subscribed to write to the list. Please tell us if you're meillo@67: not subscribed so that we set you on CC. If you want to subscribe, send meillo@67: a mail with subject ``subscribe masqmail'' to .