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SMTP client: tries EHLO now always first Changed the behavior of the SMTP client. Now always an EHLO greeting is sent, no matter what kind of greeting text the server had sent. If the EHLO failed, an HELO greeting is tried as fall back. This is the behavior RFC 2821 requires (section 3.2). This change will fix setups that were not possible to sent to a server because that requires AUTH but hadn't said ``ESMTP'' in its greeting message. See also: Debian bug #349211 Thanks to Steffen (inne)
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:40:02 -0300
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meillo@186 1 Simple Setup
meillo@186 2 ============
meillo@186 3
meillo@186 4 You want
meillo@186 5 --------
meillo@186 6
meillo@186 7 - submit mail on stdin by calling masqmail on the commandline
meillo@186 8 - submit mail with SMTP from the local machine
meillo@186 9 - let masqmail deliver mail locally to the system mailboxes /var/mail/*
meillo@186 10 - let masqmail forward non-local mail through a smart host
meillo@186 11
meillo@186 12 This is like the simple-local-setup plus the forwarding.
meillo@186 13
meillo@186 14
meillo@186 15 Set up
meillo@186 16 ------
meillo@186 17
meillo@186 18 Follow the description in INSTALL.
meillo@186 19
meillo@186 20 A common configure call would be:
meillo@186 21
meillo@186 22 ./configure --enable-auth --enable-ident
meillo@186 23
meillo@186 24
meillo@186 25 Configuration
meillo@186 26 -------------
meillo@186 27
meillo@186 28 You need a config file like this one:
meillo@186 29
meillo@186 30 host_name = "foo.example.org"
meillo@186 31 online_routes.default = /etc/masqmail/default.route
meillo@186 32
meillo@186 33 (Substitute a real hostname, of course.)
meillo@186 34
meillo@186 35 Addionally you need to create the route config file like:
meillo@186 36
meillo@186 37 protocol = smtp
meillo@186 38
meillo@186 39 # where to relay to; the address and port of the smart host
meillo@186 40 mail_host = "mail.gmx.net:25"
meillo@223 41 # use a wrapper to enable encryption
meillo@223 42 # for STARTTLS on port 25:
meillo@223 43 #instant_helo=true
meillo@223 44 #wrapper="/usr/bin/openssl s_client -quiet -starttls smtp -connect mail.gmx.net:25 2>/dev/null"
meillo@223 45 # for SMTP over SSL on port 465:
meillo@223 46 #wrapper = "/usr/bin/openssl s_client -quiet -connect mail.gmx.net:465 2>/dev/null"
meillo@186 47
meillo@186 48 do_correct_helo = true
meillo@186 49
meillo@186 50 # rewrite the From addresses to ones visible from the outside
meillo@186 51 map_return_path_addresses = "meillo: schnalke4@gmx.de"
meillo@186 52 map_h_from_addresses = "meillo: markus schnalke <schnalke4@gmx.de>"
meillo@186 53
meillo@186 54 # it's good to use "login" only if the connection is encrypted
meillo@186 55 auth_name = "login"
meillo@186 56 #auth_name = "cram-md5"
meillo@186 57 auth_login = "UID_OR_EMAIL_ADDRESS"
meillo@186 58 auth_secret = "PASSWORD"
meillo@186 59
meillo@186 60
meillo@186 61
meillo@186 62 Starting the daemon
meillo@186 63 -------------------
meillo@186 64
meillo@186 65 Listening for SMTP connections on a port requires masqmail to run as
meillo@186 66 daemon. You probably want to start masqmail as daemon each time the
meillo@186 67 system comes up. How you have to do that is system dependent.
meillo@186 68 /etc/rc.local is a good try to add the daemon call, because this file
meillo@186 69 seems to be frequently available.
meillo@186 70
meillo@186 71 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q10m
meillo@186 72
meillo@186 73 This starts masqmail in daemon mode and does a queue run every ten
meillo@186 74 minutes.
meillo@186 75
meillo@186 76
meillo@186 77 Check the setup
meillo@186 78 ---------------
meillo@186 79
meillo@186 80 Like in simple-local-setup plus ...
meillo@186 81
meillo@186 82 Send a mail to a remote location:
meillo@186 83
meillo@186 84 $ echo "some text" | mail foo@somewhereelse.example.org
meillo@186 85
meillo@186 86 Check if it is queued:
meillo@186 87
meillo@186 88 $ masqmail -bp
meillo@186 89
meillo@186 90 Deliver it with:
meillo@186 91
meillo@186 92 $ masqmail -qo default
meillo@186 93
meillo@186 94 Check the queue contents again.
meillo@186 95
meillo@186 96 You need to do such queue runs for online routes explicitely. For
meillo@186 97 instance by cron.
meillo@186 98
meillo@186 99
meillo@186 100 Automatic queue runs
meillo@186 101 --------------------
meillo@186 102
meillo@186 103 You can also tell masqmail to send queued mails through a route each
meillo@186 104 time the daemon does a queue run. Therefor you need to tell masqmail
meillo@186 105 that it is online and can use the default route to deliver mail.
meillo@186 106
meillo@186 107 Add this to masqmail.conf:
meillo@186 108
meillo@186 109 online_detect = "pipe"
meillo@186 110 online_pipe = "/bin/echo default"
meillo@186 111
meillo@186 112 Now masqmail will send online mail automatically through the default
meillo@186 113 route, each time it does a queue run (every ten minutes).
meillo@186 114
meillo@186 115
meillo@186 116 In case of problems
meillo@186 117 -------------------
meillo@186 118
meillo@186 119 Have a look at the log file: /var/log/masqmail/masqmail.log
meillo@186 120
meillo@186 121 Set the debug level in masqmail.conf, restart the daemon, redo the
meillo@186 122 test, and look at the debug file: /var/log/masqmail/debug.log
meillo@186 123
meillo@186 124 If you use a wrapper, test it manually and interactively on the
meillo@186 125 command line.
meillo@186 126
meillo@186 127 Ask on the mailing list: <masqmail@marmaro.de>
meillo@186 128
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meillo@186 131 meillo