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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 (2010-07-16)
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4 Send three mails, using different options, to stdin of masqmail, which
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5 relays it per STMP to a local MTA listening at localhost:25.
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7 So use it only if you have an MTA running on your box (sendmail,
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8 exim, qmail or whatever, or masqmail when you have it already
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9 installed).
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11 If it works, you should get three mails.
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12 Two log files, masqmail.log and debug.log will also be created within
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13 this directory. They may give some information if anything went wrong.
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15 The scripts assume that your login name corresponds to your mailbox
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16 (quite probable) and that your MTA listens on port 25 with the
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17 interface which corresponds to the hostname as returned by the shell
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18 command "hostname" (without quotes...), also very probable.
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20 If the log files reveal that your MTA is not willing to relay, you may
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21 have to qualify the hostname. You might want to do this in a way
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22 similar to:
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24 sed 's/RECV_HOST/foo.example.org/' test.tpl >test