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author meillo@marmaro.de
date Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:06:32 +0200
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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
meillo@186 11 You have luck, because this is what masqmail does by default.
meillo@186 12
meillo@186 13
meillo@186 14 Set up
meillo@186 15 ------
meillo@186 16
meillo@186 17 Follow the description in INSTALL.
meillo@186 18
meillo@186 19 A common configure call would be:
meillo@186 20
meillo@186 21 ./configure --enable-auth --enable-ident
meillo@186 22
meillo@186 23
meillo@186 24 Configuration
meillo@186 25 -------------
meillo@186 26
meillo@186 27 You just need a minimal config file, having one line:
meillo@186 28
meillo@186 29 host_name = "foo.example.org"
meillo@186 30
meillo@186 31 (Substitute a real value, of course.)
meillo@186 32
meillo@186 33
meillo@186 34 Starting the daemon
meillo@186 35 -------------------
meillo@186 36
meillo@186 37 Listening for SMTP connections on a port requires masqmail to run as
meillo@186 38 daemon. You probably want to start masqmail as daemon each time the
meillo@186 39 system comes up. How you have to do that is system dependent.
meillo@186 40 /etc/rc.local is a good try to add the daemon call, because this file
meillo@186 41 seems to be frequently available.
meillo@186 42
meillo@186 43 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q10m
meillo@186 44
meillo@186 45 This starts masqmail in daemon mode and does a queue run every ten
meillo@186 46 minutes.
meillo@186 47
meillo@186 48
meillo@186 49 Check the setup
meillo@186 50 ---------------
meillo@186 51
meillo@186 52 Ensure you have the sendmail links correct:
meillo@186 53
meillo@186 54 $ ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
meillo@186 55 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-06 13:50 /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/masqmail*
meillo@186 56 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-06 13:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/masqmail*
meillo@186 57
meillo@186 58 Send a mail to yourself:
meillo@186 59
meillo@186 60 $ echo "some text" | mail `whoami`
meillo@186 61
meillo@186 62 Check if the mail was delivered (then delete it and quit):
meillo@186 63
meillo@186 64 $ mail
meillo@186 65 Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
meillo@186 66 "/var/mail/meillo": 1 message 1 new
meillo@186 67 >N 1 meillo@serveme.sc Wed Jul 14 22:50 13/467
meillo@186 68 & p
meillo@186 69 Message 1:
meillo@186 70 From <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local> Wed Jul 14 22:50:13 2010
meillo@186 71 Envelope-to: <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local>
meillo@186 72 To: meillo
meillo@186 73 From: <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local>
meillo@186 74 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:50:13 +0200
meillo@186 75
meillo@186 76 some text
meillo@186 77
meillo@186 78 & d
meillo@186 79 & q
meillo@186 80
meillo@186 81
meillo@186 82 In case of problems
meillo@186 83 -------------------
meillo@186 84
meillo@186 85 Have a look at the log file: /var/log/masqmail/masqmail.log
meillo@186 86
meillo@186 87 Set the debug level in masqmail.conf, restart the daemon, redo the
meillo@186 88 test, and look at the debug file: /var/log/masqmail/debug.log
meillo@186 89
meillo@186 90 Ask on the mailing list: <masqmail@marmaro.de>
meillo@186 91
meillo@186 92
meillo@186 93
meillo@186 94 meillo