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