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annotate README @ 323:29de6a1c4538
Fixed an important bug with folded headers!
g_strconcat() returns a *copy* of the string, but hdr->value still
pointed to the old header (which probably was a memory leak, too).
If the folded part had been quite small it was likely that the new
string was at the same position as the old one, thus making everything
go well. But if pretty long headers were folded several times it was
likely that the new string was allocated somewhere else in memory,
thus breaking things. In result mails to lots of recipients (folded
header) were frequently only sent to the ones in the first line. Sorry
for the inconvenience.
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:47:27 +0200 |
| parents | 5a93bdc261ba |
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| 67 | 1 Masqmail README |
| 2 =============== | |
| 0 | 3 |
| 67 | 4 Masqmail is a mail server designed for hosts that are not permanently |
| 0 | 5 connected to the internet. It handles outgoing messages, i.e. those |
| 6 that are to be sent over the non-permanent link (usually a ppp or slip | |
| 7 connection over a modem or ISDN adapter) specially and delivers them | |
| 8 only when explicitely told to do so. There is support for multiple | |
| 9 providers, it is possible to write different configurations for each | |
| 10 one. The configuration chosen is selected at delivery time, so that if | |
| 11 for example a delivery of a message failed while connected with | |
| 12 provider 1, it may be delivered when connected to provider 2. For each | |
| 13 provider another mail host (or none) can be specified. | |
| 14 | |
| 67 | 15 Masqmail provides (a yet simple) mechanism to rewrite headers, also |
| 0 | 16 depending on the current connection. This makes it possible to deliver |
| 17 messages with a return address on the local network which will be | |
| 18 rewitten at delivery time. The purpose of this is: | |
| 19 | |
| 20 - to allow delivery failure messages that are produced on the local | |
| 21 network to be delivered immediately, while those that are produced | |
| 22 outside can be delivered to a mailbox on the internet, to be retrieved | |
| 23 later. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 - to give mail servers a return address which they can accept if they | |
| 26 check for spam mail. Many mail servers require a return address which | |
| 27 has the same domain as the server it is getting the message from. If | |
| 28 you normally connect to only one provider, this is usually not a | |
| 29 problem as you can configure your mailer to a fixed address (but then | |
| 30 there is still the problem with the failure messages...), but it is a | |
| 31 problem if you use different ones from time to time. | |
| 32 | |
| 67 | 33 Masqmail shall once be a complete replacement for sendmail (or other |
| 0 | 34 MTAs such as exim, qmail or smail) on a local network, but it is NOT |
| 35 supposed to be installed in a network with a permanent internet | |
| 36 connection (at least if it is not behind a secure firewall) because | |
| 37 it has no ability to check for undesired relaying or spam filtering. | |
| 38 | |
| 67 | 39 |
| 40 Masqmail's website is: | |
| 0 | 41 |
| 67 | 42 http://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail |
| 43 | |
| 44 The email address of it's mailing list is: | |
| 45 | |
| 46 <masqmail@marmaro.de> | |
| 0 | 47 |
| 67 | 48 To subscribe yourself to the list, send a mail with the subject |
| 49 ``subscribe masqmail'' to <minimalist@marmaro.de>. The mailing list | |
| 50 archive is accessible at: http://lists.marmaro.de/masqmail/ . If you | |
| 51 have any problems, contact me: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>. | |
| 0 | 52 |
| 67 | 53 |
| 54 INSTALLATION | |
| 55 ------------ | |
| 0 | 56 |
| 57 For installation instructions, see INSTALL. | |
| 58 | |
| 67 | 59 |
| 60 BUGS | |
| 61 ---- | |
| 0 | 62 |
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No, we don't have that many bugs any more, I believe. ;-)
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63 There are probably bugs in masqmail. Please report any one you discover |
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No, we don't have that many bugs any more, I believe. ;-)
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64 to me. The more bug reports I get, the better masqmail will get. |
| 67 | 65 |
| 66 See docs/howto-report-bugs for detailed instructions. | |
| 67 | |
| 68 | |
| 69 CREDITS | |
| 70 ------- | |
| 0 | 71 |
| 72 I would like to thank everyone who has submitted suggestions and bug | |
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73 reports. |
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75 See THANKS. |
| 67 | 76 |
| 77 | |
| 78 | |
| 79 This file was originally written by by Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>. | |
| 80 Later updated and extended by markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>. |