masqmail

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default listen_addresses: use 127.0.0.1 instead of `localhost' because `localhost' could be bound to some other IP address. This is unlikely but could be. Using 127.0.0.1 is more safe. See mailing list for details
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:34:40 +0200
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meillo@142 1 .TH masqmail 8 2010-07-06 masqmail-0.2.25 "Maintenance Commands"
meillo@34 2
meillo@0 3 .SH NAME
meillo@0 4 masqmail \- An offline Mail Transfer Agent
meillo@34 5
meillo@0 6 .SH SYNOPSIS
meillo@34 7 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-C \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-bd\fR] [\fB\-q\fIinterval\fR]
meillo@0 8
meillo@34 9 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-odq\fR] [\fB\-bs\fR]
meillo@0 10
meillo@34 11 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-bp\fR]
meillo@0 12
meillo@34 13 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-q\fR]
meillo@0 14
meillo@34 15 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-qo \fR[\fIname\fR]]
meillo@0 16
meillo@34 17 \fB/usr/sbin/masqmail \fR[\fB\-t\fR] [\fB\-oi\fR] [\fB\-f \fIaddress\fR] [\fB\-\-\fR] \fIaddress...
meillo@0 18
meillo@34 19 \fB/usr/sbin/mailq\fR
meillo@0 20
meillo@34 21
meillo@0 22 .SH DESCRIPTION
meillo@0 23
meillo@34 24 Masqmail is a mail server designed for hosts that do not have a permanent internet connection
meillo@34 25 e.g. a home network or a single host at home.
meillo@34 26 It has special support for connections to different ISPs.
meillo@34 27 It replaces sendmail or other MTAs such as qmail or exim.
meillo@34 28
meillo@0 29
meillo@0 30 .SH OPTIONS
meillo@0 31
meillo@34 32 Since masqmail is intended to replace sendmail, it uses the same command line options,
meillo@34 33 but not all are implemented.
meillo@34 34 There are also two additional options, which are unique to masqmail
meillo@34 35 (\fB\-qo \fIconnection\fR and \fB\-g\fR)
meillo@34 36
meillo@0 37 .TP
meillo@34 38 \fB\-\-\fR
meillo@0 39
meillo@34 40 Not a `real' option, it means that all following arguments are to be understood
meillo@34 41 as arguments and not as options even if they begin with a leading dash `\-'.
meillo@34 42 Mutt is known to call sendmail with this option.
meillo@0 43
meillo@0 44 .TP
meillo@34 45 \fB\-bd\fR
meillo@0 46
meillo@34 47 Run as daemon, accepting connections, usually on port 25 if not configured differently.
meillo@34 48 This is usually used in the startup script at system boot and together with
meillo@34 49 the \fB\-q\fR option (see below).
meillo@0 50
meillo@0 51 .TP
meillo@34 52 \fB\-bi\fR
meillo@0 53
meillo@34 54 Old sendmail rebuilds its alias database when invoked with this option.
meillo@34 55 Masqmail ignores it.
meillo@34 56 Masqmail reads directly from the file given with `alias_file' in the config file.
meillo@0 57
meillo@0 58 .TP
meillo@34 59 \fB\-bp\fR
meillo@0 60
meillo@34 61 Show the messages in the queue. Same as calling masqmail as `mailq'.
meillo@0 62
meillo@0 63 .TP
meillo@34 64 \fB\-bs\fR
meillo@0 65
meillo@34 66 Accept SMTP commands from stdin.
meillo@34 67 Some mailers (e.g. pine) use this option as an interface.
meillo@34 68 It can also be used to call masqmail from inetd.
meillo@0 69
meillo@0 70 .TP
meillo@34 71 \fB\-B \fIarg\fR
meillo@0 72
meillo@34 73 \fIarg\fR is usually 8BITMIME.
meillo@34 74 Some mailers use this to indicate that the message contains characters > 127.
meillo@34 75 Masqmail is 8-bit clean and ignores this, so you do not have to recompile elm,
meillo@34 76 which is very painful ;-).
meillo@34 77 Note though that this violates some conventions:
meillo@34 78 masqmail does not convert 8 bit messages to any MIME format if it encounters
meillo@34 79 a mail server which does not advertise its 8BITMIME capability,
meillo@34 80 masqmail does not advertise this itself.
meillo@34 81 This is the same practice as that of exim (but different to sendmail).
meillo@0 82
meillo@0 83 .TP
meillo@34 84 \fB\-bV \fR
meillo@0 85
meillo@0 86 Show version information.
meillo@34 87
meillo@0 88 .TP
meillo@34 89 \fB\-C \fIfilename\fR
meillo@0 90
meillo@34 91 Use another configuration than \fI/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf\fR.
meillo@34 92 Useful for debugging purposes.
meillo@34 93 If not invoked by a privileged user, masqmail will drop all privileges.
meillo@0 94
meillo@0 95 .TP
meillo@34 96 \fB\-d \fInumber\fR
meillo@0 97
meillo@34 98 Set the debug level.
meillo@34 99 This takes precedence before the value of `debug_level' in the configuration file.
meillo@34 100 Read the warning in the description of the latter.
meillo@0 101
meillo@0 102 .TP
meillo@34 103 \fB\-f [\fIaddress\fB]\fR
meillo@0 104
meillo@34 105 Set the return path address to \fIaddress\fR.
meillo@34 106 Only root, the user mail and anyone in group mail is allowed to do that.
meillo@0 107
meillo@0 108 .TP
meillo@34 109 \fB\-F [\fIstring\fB]\fR
meillo@0 110
meillo@34 111 Set the full sender name (in the From: header) to \fIstring\fR.
meillo@0 112
meillo@0 113 .TP
meillo@34 114 \fB\-i\fR
meillo@0 115
meillo@34 116 Same as \fB\-oi\fR, see below.
meillo@0 117
meillo@0 118 .TP
meillo@34 119 \fB\-Mrm \fIlist\fR
meillo@0 120
meillo@34 121 Remove given messages from the queue.
meillo@34 122 Only allowed for privileged users.
meillo@45 123 The identifiers of messages are listed in the output of
meillo@99 124 \fImasqmail \-bp\fP (\fImailq\fR).
meillo@0 125
meillo@0 126 .TP
meillo@34 127 \fB\-oem\fR
meillo@0 128
meillo@34 129 If the \fB\-oi\fR ist not also given, always return with a non zero return code.
meillo@34 130 Maybe someone tells me what this is good for...
meillo@0 131
meillo@0 132 .TP
meillo@34 133 \fB\-odb\fR
meillo@0 134
meillo@34 135 Deliver in background.
meillo@34 136 Masqmail always does this, which makes this option pretty much useless.
meillo@0 137
meillo@0 138 .TP
meillo@34 139 \fB\-odq\fR
meillo@0 140
meillo@34 141 Do not attempt to deliver immediately.
meillo@34 142 Any messages will be queued until the next queue running process picks them up and delivers them.
meillo@34 143 You get the same effect by setting the do_queue option in /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf.
meillo@0 144
meillo@0 145 .TP
meillo@34 146 \fB\-oi\fR
meillo@0 147
meillo@0 148 A dot as a single character in a line does not terminate the message.
meillo@34 149
meillo@0 150 .TP
meillo@34 151 \fB\-q [\fIinterval\fB]\fR
meillo@0 152
meillo@34 153 If not given with an argument, run a queue process, i.e. try to deliver all messages in the queue.
meillo@34 154 Masqmail sends only to those addresses that are on the local net, not to those that are outside.
meillo@34 155 Use \fB\-qo\fR for those.
meillo@0 156
meillo@34 157 If you have configured inetd to start masqmail,
meillo@34 158 you can use this option in a cron job which starts in regular time intervals,
meillo@34 159 to mimic the same effect as starting masqmail with \fB\-bd \-q30m\fR.
meillo@0 160
meillo@34 161 An argument may be a time interval i.e. a numerical value followed by one of the letters.
meillo@34 162 s,m,h,d,w which are interpreted as seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively.
meillo@34 163 Example: \fB\-q30m\fR.
meillo@34 164 Masqmail starts as a daemon and a queue runner process will be started automatically
meillo@34 165 once in this time interval.
meillo@34 166 This is usually used together with \fB\-bd\fR (see above).
meillo@0 167
meillo@0 168 .TP
meillo@34 169 \fB\-qo [\fIname\fB]\fR
meillo@0 170
meillo@34 171 Can be followed by a connection name.
meillo@34 172 Use this option in your script which starts as soon as a link to the internet
meillo@34 173 has been set up (usually ip-up).
meillo@34 174 When masqmail is called with this option, the specified route configuration
meillo@34 175 is read and the queued mail with destinations on the internet will be sent.
meillo@34 176 The \fIname\fR is defined in the configuration (see \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR).
meillo@0 177
meillo@34 178 If called without \fIname\fR the online status is determined with the configured
meillo@34 179 method (see \fBonline_detect\fR in \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR)
meillo@0 180
meillo@0 181 .TP
meillo@34 182 \fB\-t\fR
meillo@0 183
meillo@34 184 Read recipients from headers.
meillo@34 185 Delete `Bcc:' headers.
meillo@106 186 (Since 0.2.25, masqmail deletes Bcc: headers in all cases.)
meillo@34 187 If any arguments are given, these are interpreted as recipient addresses
meillo@103 188 and the message will not be sent to these,
meillo@103 189 although they might appear in To:, Cc:, or Bcc: headers.
meillo@103 190 I.e. the set of argument recipients is ``substracted'' from the set of header recipients.
meillo@103 191
meillo@103 192 This behavior is similar to exim's and smail's.
meillo@103 193 Postfix, in contrast, adds the arguments to the set of header recipients.
meillo@103 194 Sendmail seems to behave differently, depending on the version.
meillo@103 195 See exim(8) for further information.
meillo@0 196
meillo@0 197 .TP
meillo@34 198 \fB\-v\fR
meillo@0 199
meillo@34 200 Log also to stdout.
meillo@34 201 Currently, some log messages are marked as `write to stdout' and additionally,
meillo@34 202 all messages with priority `LOG_ALERT' and `LOG_WARNING' will be written to stdout
meillo@34 203 if this option is given. It is disabled in daemon mode.
meillo@0 204
meillo@34 205
meillo@0 206 .SH ENVIRONMENT FOR PIPES AND MDAS
meillo@0 207
meillo@34 208 For security reasons, before any pipe command from an alias expansion or an mda is called,
meillo@34 209 the environment variables will be completely discarded and newly set up. These are:
meillo@0 210
meillo@34 211 SENDER, RETURN_PATH \(en the return path.
meillo@0 212
meillo@34 213 SENDER_DOMAIN \(en the domain part of the return path.
meillo@0 214
meillo@34 215 SENDER_LOCAL \(en the local part of the return path.
meillo@0 216
meillo@34 217 RECEIVED_HOST \(en the host the message was received from (unless local).
meillo@0 218
meillo@34 219 LOCAL_PART, USER, LOGNAME \(en the local part of the (original) recipient.
meillo@0 220
meillo@34 221 MESSAGE_ID \(en the unique message id.
meillo@34 222 This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.
meillo@0 223
meillo@34 224 QUALIFY_DOMAIN \(en the domain which will be appended to unqualified addresses.
meillo@34 225
meillo@0 226
meillo@0 227 .SH FILES
meillo@0 228
meillo@34 229 \fI/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf\fR is the main configuration for masqmail.
meillo@34 230 Depending on the settings in this file, you will also have other configuration
meillo@34 231 files in \fI/etc/masqmail/\fR.
meillo@0 232
meillo@34 233 \fI/var/spool/masqmail/\fR is the spool directory where masqmail stores
meillo@192 234 its spooled messages.
meillo@0 235
meillo@34 236 \fI/var/spool/mail/\fR is the directory where locally delivered mail will be put,
meillo@34 237 if not configured differently in \fImasqmail.conf\fR.
meillo@0 238
meillo@34 239 \fI/var/log/masqmail/\fR is the directory where masqmail stores its log mesages.
meillo@34 240 This can also be somewhere else if configured differently by your sysadmin or the package mantainer.
meillo@34 241
meillo@0 242
meillo@0 243 .SH CONFORMING TO
meillo@0 244
meillo@0 245 RFC 821, 822, 1869, 1870, 2197, 2554 (SMTP)
meillo@0 246
meillo@0 247 RFC 1321 (MD5)
meillo@0 248
meillo@0 249 RFC 2195 (CRAM-MD5)
meillo@0 250
meillo@34 251
meillo@0 252 .SH AUTHOR
meillo@0 253
meillo@34 254 Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth.
meillo@34 255 It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>.
meillo@0 256
meillo@95 257 You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR.
meillo@26 258 There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site.
meillo@0 259
meillo@34 260
meillo@0 261 .SH BUGS
meillo@0 262
meillo@34 263 Please report them to the mailing list.
meillo@34 264
meillo@0 265
meillo@0 266 .SH SEE ALSO
meillo@0 267
meillo@192 268 \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.aliases(5)\fR