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Minor refactoring and added a newline to the debug output.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:23:16 +0100
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meillo@59 1 Additional information may be available in docs/ or on the website.
meillo@174 2 For installing on GNU/Linux distributions read docs/INSTALL.linux.
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meillo@59 5 Installation instructions
meillo@59 6 -------------------------
meillo@59 7
meillo@165 8 To compile masqmail you need glib (>= 1.2) (http://www.gtk.org). Your
meillo@181 9 distribution probably provides it. Glib-2.0 works out of the box, for
meillo@181 10 glib-1.2, you need to adjust configure.ac. See the comment in there.
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meillo@165 12 You need a user and a group for masqmail to run. If
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meillo@165 14 grep '^mail:' /etc/passwd
meillo@358 15 grep '^mail:' /etc/group
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meillo@358 17 shows that the user `mail' and the group `mail' exist, it's probably
meillo@358 18 best to use these. If they don't exist, create them:
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meillo@358 20 groupadd -g 12 mail
meillo@358 21 useradd -u 8 -g mail -d /nonexistent -s /bin/false -c "masqmail MTA" mail
meillo@0 22
meillo@358 23 The 8 and 12 are common uid/gid for the user and group `mail', but you can
meillo@358 24 use any (not yet used) number you like, preferably one lower than 100.
meillo@358 25 If you use other names than `mail' and `mail', you need to use the
meillo@358 26 configure options described below.
meillo@165 27
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meillo@174 29 Compiling is a matter of the usual procedure. In the source directory,
meillo@59 30 after unpacking do:
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meillo@59 32 ./configure
meillo@59 33 make
meillo@59 34 make install
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meillo@59 38 Additional options for configure
meillo@59 39 --------------------------------
meillo@0 40
meillo@59 41 See the output of
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meillo@59 43 ./configure -h
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meillo@165 45 Here is a selection of the options with additional explanations:
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meillo@165 47 --with-user=USER
meillo@165 48 sets the user as which masqmail will run. Default is 'mail'. USER has
meillo@165 49 to exist before you 'make install'.
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meillo@165 51 --with-group=GROUP
meillo@358 52 sets the group as which masqmail will run. Default is 'mail'. GROUP
meillo@165 53 has to exist before you 'make install'.
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meillo@165 56 --with-logdir=LOGDIR
meillo@165 57 sets the directory where masqmail stores its log files. It will be
meillo@165 58 created if it does not exist. Default is /var/log/masqmail/.
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meillo@165 60 --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR
meillo@165 61 sets the directory where masqmail stores its spool files. It will be
meillo@165 62 created if it does not exist. Default is /var/spool/masqmail/.
meillo@0 63
meillo@165 64 --with-confdir=CONFDIR
meillo@165 65 sets the default configuration directory to CONFDIR, in case you
meillo@165 66 prefer another location than /etc/masqmail/.
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meillo@165 69 --disable-resolver
meillo@175 70 disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail
meillo@165 71 uses only gethostbyname() to resolve DNS names, and you cannot send
meillo@165 72 mail without a smart host. Not recommended.
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meillo@364 74 --disable-auth
meillo@364 75 disables ESMTP AUTH support (enabled by default)
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meillo@165 78 --disable-debug
meillo@175 79 disables debugging; setting it on the command line or in the
meillo@175 80 configuration has no effect. Strongly discouraged, since you miss
meillo@175 81 valuable information if something goes wrong.
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meillo@165 85 Checking the installation
meillo@165 86 -------------------------
meillo@0 87
meillo@0 88 Check that 'make install' worked correctly. The following command:
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meillo@195 90 ls -ld /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /etc/masqmail /var/log/masqmail/ \
meillo@174 91 /var/run/masqmail /var/spool/masqmail/ /var/spool/masqmail/*
meillo@0 92
meillo@0 93 should give output similar to
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meillo@165 95 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 399356 May 10 12:34 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail
meillo@59 96 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 12:34 /etc/masqmail
meillo@358 97 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/log/masqmail
meillo@358 98 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/run/masqmail
meillo@358 99 drwxr-xr-x 5 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail
meillo@358 100 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/input
meillo@358 101 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/lock
meillo@0 102
meillo@165 103 Important are the set-user-id bit for /usr/local/sbin/masqmail and
meillo@165 104 the permissions of all files.
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meillo@165 108 Making masqmail the default
meillo@165 109 ---------------------------
meillo@0 110
meillo@165 111 `sendmail' is the de-facto standard name of the system's MTA, no
meillo@165 112 matter which MTA actually runs. If you want to make masqmail the
meillo@185 113 system's MTA (i.e. replace sendmail, postfix, etc), make two symbolic
meillo@185 114 links:
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meillo@165 116 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/lib/sendmail
meillo@185 117 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
meillo@0 118
meillo@165 119 Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail.
meillo@165 120 If you already had an MTA installed and running, you can kill it and
meillo@165 121 start masqmail. Probably with:
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meillo@165 123 /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
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meillo@165 125 If this doesn't work as expected, you might need to add a special init
meillo@165 126 script for masqmail. Currently none is distributed with masqmail.
meillo@165 127 (Hopefully this will change soon.) Please ask on the mailing list for
meillo@165 128 help.
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meillo@165 130 You can also directly start masqmail as daemon with:
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meillo@165 132 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q30m
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meillo@165 136 Basic Configuration
meillo@165 137 -------------------
meillo@59 138
meillo@165 139 The only thing you must configure in order to use masqmail is the
meillo@165 140 hostname. It's the name under which masqmail operates. In most cases
meillo@165 141 it is the same as the machine's name, but it can be different.
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meillo@227 143 The script `admin/guess-hostname' tries to print the hostname of
meillo@165 144 your machine. The first output line is probably the best choice.
meillo@59 145
meillo@165 146 Create a minimal config with:
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meillo@165 148 echo "host_name = HOSTNAME" >/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
meillo@59 149
meillo@165 150 (Substitute `HOSTNAME' with the real value, of course.)
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meillo@165 152 Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does:
meillo@165 153 - deliver mail locally
meillo@206 154 - accept mail on stdin (plain text)
meillo@206 155 - accept mail on stdin (SMTP) (if started with -bs)
meillo@206 156 - accept mail on the local port 25 (SMTP) (if started with -bd)
meillo@185 157
meillo@165 158 It does not
meillo@185 159 - transfer mail to other machines
meillo@165 160 - accept mail from outside your machine
meillo@59 161
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meillo@165 163 For more elaborate setups, have a look at docs/*setup and
meillo@165 164 docs/INSTALL*. You can also take the example configuration files in
meillo@165 165 examples/ as basis for your own. Take the man pages masqmail.conf(5)
meillo@165 166 and masqmail.route(5) for reference.
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meillo@165 168 All configuration files should go into /etc/masqmail.
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meillo@59 172 Written by oku.
meillo@165 173 Improved by meillo.