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meillo@56 3 <TITLE>MasqMail - Manual
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meillo@56 18 <td align=center width="100%"><font size="6" color = "#ffffff">Frequently Asked Questions</font></td>
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meillo@56 28 Some of these questions were never asked, but I thought they will be
meillo@56 29 some time. Some <em>were</em> asked.
meillo@56 30
meillo@56 31 <h4>General Questions</h4>
meillo@56 32 <ul>
meillo@56 33 <li><a href="#1_0">1.0: When do I need MasqMail?</a></li>
meillo@56 34 <li><a href="#1_1">1.1: When do I <em>not</em> need MasqMail?</a></li>
meillo@56 35 <li><a href="#1_2">1.2: Can I retrieve mail with MasqMail?</a></li>
meillo@56 36 <li><a href="#1_3">1.3: Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?</a></li>
meillo@56 37 </ul>
meillo@56 38
meillo@56 39 <h4>Setup</h4>
meillo@56 40 <ul>
meillo@56 41 <li><a href="#2_0">2.0: After starting masmail, I get the following
meillo@56 42 message: "could not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"</a></li>
meillo@56 43 <li><a href="#2_1">2.1: After starting masmail, I get the following
meillo@56 44 message: "bind: (terminating): Address already in use"</a></li>
meillo@56 45 </ul>
meillo@56 46
meillo@56 47 <h4>Header Rewriting</h4>
meillo@56 48 <ul>
meillo@56 49 <li><a href="#3_0">3.0: My friends told me that they do not see my
meillo@56 50 full name in their inbox, although it is configured in my mail
meillo@56 51 client.</a></li>
meillo@56 52 </ul>
meillo@56 53
meillo@56 54 <h4>Delivering Online</h4>
meillo@56 55 <ul>
meillo@56 56 <li><a href="#4_0">4.0: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the following message in the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: Permission denied".</a></li>
meillo@56 57 <li><a href="#4_1">4.1: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the following message in the log file: "route with name <em>name</em> not found.".</a></li>
meillo@56 58 </ul>
meillo@56 59
meillo@56 60 <h4>Bugs</h4>
meillo@56 61 <ul>
meillo@56 62 <li><a href="#5_0">5.0: I found a bug.</a></li>
meillo@56 63 <li><a href="#5_1">5.1: I think I found a bug, but I am not sure whether I configured MasqMail incorrectly.</a></li>
meillo@56 64 </ul>
meillo@56 65
meillo@56 66 <a name="1_0"> <h4>1.0: When do I need MasqMail?</h4></a>
meillo@56 67
meillo@56 68 <p> You do not <em>need</em> it. But it makes sending mails via a
meillo@56 69 dialup connection a lot easier.</p>
meillo@56 70
meillo@56 71 <p>It is useful if you dial to the internet from time to time via a
meillo@56 72 modem and connect to different providers, each one with a different
meillo@56 73 configuration. Other MTAs are not flexible enough if you have to send
meillo@56 74 mails via different mail servers for each provider. With MasqMail you
meillo@56 75 can configure a different one for each provider and even set your
meillo@56 76 return addresses differently.</p>
meillo@56 77
meillo@56 78 <p>It is also useful if you have a LAN with a gateway which is
meillo@56 79 connected to the internet via a modem because you can rewrite your
meillo@56 80 address depending on whether the recipients are <em>inside</em> or
meillo@56 81 <em>outside</em> your LAN. So responses and delivery failures on your
meillo@56 82 LAN will be sent to you without leaving it, while those outside will
meillo@56 83 be delivered to your address outside. (But it does not yet send
meillo@56 84 delivery failures itself yet.)</p>
meillo@56 85
meillo@56 86 <p>MasqMail is also often used on notebooks.</p>
meillo@56 87
meillo@56 88 <a name="1_1"><h4>1.1: When do I <em>not</em> need MasqMail?</h4></a>
meillo@56 89
meillo@56 90 <p>The use of MasqMail is <em>strongly</em> discouraged if you have a
meillo@56 91 permanent connection to the internet without a firewall. First because
meillo@56 92 it does not have the ability to block relaying (it relays every mail)
meillo@56 93 and second because there are no capabilities to protect against
meillo@56 94 SPAM. You will not take advantages of its features anyway.</p>
meillo@56 95
meillo@56 96 <a name="1_2"><h4>1.2: Can I retrieve mail with MasqMail?</h4></a>
meillo@56 97
meillo@56 98 <p>Yes, for version >= 0.1.0 you can retrieve mail via the POP3 and
meillo@56 99 APOP protocol from single drop mailboxes (in case you do not know
meillo@56 100 about single/mutidrop, you probaby use single drop mailboxes).</p>
meillo@56 101
meillo@56 102 <p>You can also use fetchmail or other pop/imap clients to feed
meillo@56 103 it.</p>
meillo@56 104
meillo@56 105 <a name="1_3"><h4>1.3: Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?</h4></a>
meillo@56 106
meillo@56 107 <p>Yes, there is! See <a href="http://www.innominate.org/mailman/listinfo/masqmail">here</a>.</p>
meillo@56 108
meillo@56 109 <a name="2_0"><h4>2.0: After starting masmail, I get the following
meillo@56 110 message: "could not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"</h4></a>
meillo@56 111
meillo@56 112 <p>Set the set-user-id-bit with chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail.</p>
meillo@56 113
meillo@56 114 <a name="2_1"><h4>2.1: After starting masmail, I get the following
meillo@56 115 message: "bind: (terminating): Address already in use"</h4></a>
meillo@56 116
meillo@56 117 <p>This means that there is already a process listening on a port,
meillo@56 118 usually 25. You either have another MTA running in background
meillo@56 119 (sendmail, exim, etc...) or another instance of masqmail.</p>
meillo@56 120
meillo@56 121 <p>It may also mean that the ports you configured MM to listen to
meillo@56 122 (with 'listen_addresses') are on the same IP address, eg. you may have
meillo@56 123 set your hostname to 127.0.0.1 and try to listen on localhost and your
meillo@56 124 host name. In this case either set your hostname to another IP address
meillo@56 125 or delete one of the conflicting entries.</p>
meillo@56 126
meillo@56 127 <a name="3_0"><h4>3.0: My friends told me that they do not see my full
meillo@56 128 name in their inbox, although it is configured in my mail
meillo@56 129 client.</h4></a>
meillo@56 130
meillo@56 131 <p>You probably used the <b>map_h_from_addresses</b> feature in the
meillo@56 132 route configuration and forgot to set your real name. The syntax
meillo@56 133 is:</p>
meillo@56 134
meillo@56 135 <pre>
meillo@56 136 map_h_from_addresses = "charlie:Charlie Miller &lt;cmiller@foo.com&gt";
meillo@56 137 </pre>
meillo@56 138
meillo@56 139 <p>Do not forget the <em>Charlie Miller</em>.</p>
meillo@56 140
meillo@56 141 <a name="4_0"><h4>4.0: With connection method <em>file</em>, I get the
meillo@56 142 following message in the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route:
meillo@56 143 Permission denied".</h4></a>
meillo@56 144
meillo@56 145 <p>In your ip-up script, you have to set read permission to the user
meillo@56 146 masqmail runs as. After you write the file with the connection name,
meillo@56 147 set read permission to all with chmod ugo+r <em>file</em>.
meillo@56 148
meillo@56 149 <a name="4_1"><h4>4.1: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the
meillo@56 150 following message in the log file: "route with name <em>name</em> not
meillo@56 151 found.".</h4></a>
meillo@56 152
meillo@56 153 <p>Check whether the name in the file is really identical to name you
meillo@56 154 gave to the route configuration (case sensitive!). Maybe there is a
meillo@56 155 linefeed after the name in the file. Write it with echo -n.</p>
meillo@56 156
meillo@56 157 <a name="5_0"><h4>5.0: I found a bug.</h4></a>
meillo@56 158
meillo@56 159 <p>Make sure you are using the newest version, in case of doubt search
meillo@56 160 it in <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net">freshmeat</a>. If you do, tell
meillo@56 161 <a href = "mailto:Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>">me</a>. See
meillo@56 162 also the section <a href="index.html#bugs">bugs</a> on the <a
meillo@56 163 href="index.html">main</a> page.</p>
meillo@56 164
meillo@56 165 <a name="5_1"><h4>5.1: I think I found a bug, but I am not sure
meillo@56 166 whether I configured MasqMail incorrectly.</h4></a>
meillo@56 167
meillo@56 168 <p>Don't care. Tell <a href = "mailto:Oliver Kurth
meillo@56 169 <kurth@innominate.de>">me</a>. Or write to the <a
meillo@56 170 href="http://www.innominate.org/mailman/listinfo/masqmail">mailing
meillo@56 171 list</a>.</p>
meillo@56 172
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