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+ − 1 Masqmail README
+ − 2 ===============
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+ − 4 Masqmail is a mail server designed for hosts that are not permanently
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+ − 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.
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+ − 15 Masqmail provides (a yet simple) mechanism to rewrite headers, also
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+ − 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:
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+ − 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.
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+ − 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.
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+ − 33 Masqmail shall once be a complete replacement for sendmail (or other
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+ − 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.
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+ − 40 Masqmail's website is:
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+ − 42 http://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail
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+ − 44 The email address of it's mailing list is:
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+ − 46 <masqmail@marmaro.de>
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+ − 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>.
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+ − 54 INSTALLATION
+ − 55 ------------
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+ − 57 For installation instructions, see INSTALL.
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+ − 60 BUGS
+ − 61 ----
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+ − 63 There are probably a lot of bugs in masqmail. Please report any one you
+ − 64 discover to me. The more bug reports I get, the better masqmail will
+ − 65 get.
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+ − 67 See docs/howto-report-bugs for detailed instructions.
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+ − 70 CREDITS
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+ − 73 I would like to thank everyone who has submitted suggestions and bug
+ − 74 reports. Special thanks to:
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+ − 76 Gregor Hoffleit for beta testing and his suggestions for delivering
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+ − 77 mail immediately when online. And for supplying a patch which made
+ − 78 masqmail work with mutt. And again for making the Debian package. And
+ − 79 more patches.
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+ − 81 Dale Perkel for patiently trying to make MM compile and run with libc5
+ − 82 and various bug reports.
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+ − 84 Andre Masloch for finding most bugs.
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+ − 86 Edouard G. Parmelan for many patches and bug reports.
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+ − 88 Iain Lea for the Redhat spec file.
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+ − 90 Juergen Daubert for excellent bug reports including patches and various
+ − 91 feedback.
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+ − 93 Paolo for a large patch improving several parts of masqmail, especially
+ − 94 server-side SMTP SIZE support.
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+ − 96 ... and many others.
+ − 97 See ChangeLog, the code repository log, and the mailing list for more.
+ − 98 Feel free to tell me if you think you are missing on this list.
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+ − 102 This file was originally written by by Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>.
+ − 103 Later updated and extended by markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>.
