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+ − 1 Frequently Asked Questions
+ − 2 ==========================
+ − 3
+ − 4 Some of these questions were never asked, but I thought they will
+ − 5 be some time. Some were asked.
+ − 6
+ − 7
+ − 8 When do I need MasqMail?
+ − 9 ------------------------
+ − 10 You do not *need* it. But it makes sending mails via a dialup
+ − 11 connection a lot easier.
+ − 12
+ − 13 It is useful if you dial to the internet from time to time via a
+ − 14 modem and connect to different providers, each one with a
+ − 15 different configuration. Other MTAs are not flexible enough if you
+ − 16 have to send mails via different mail servers for each provider.
+ − 17 With MasqMail you can configure a different one for each provider
+ − 18 and even set your return addresses differently.
+ − 19
+ − 20 It is also useful if you have a LAN with a gateway which is
+ − 21 connected to the internet via a modem because you can rewrite your
+ − 22 address depending on whether the recipients are *inside* or
+ − 23 *outside* your LAN. So responses and delivery failures on your LAN
+ − 24 will be sent to you without leaving it, while those outside will
+ − 25 be delivered to your address outside. (But it does not yet send
+ − 26 delivery failures itself yet.)
+ − 27
+ − 28 MasqMail is also often used on notebooks.
+ − 29
+ − 30
+ − 31 When do I not need MasqMail?
+ − 32 ----------------------------
+ − 33 The use of MasqMail is *strongly* discouraged if you have a
+ − 34 permanent connection to the internet without a firewall. First
+ − 35 because it does not have the ability to block relaying (it relays
+ − 36 every mail) and second because there are no capabilities to
+ − 37 protect against SPAM. You will not take advantages of its features
+ − 38 anyway.
+ − 39
+ − 40
+ − 41 Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?
+ − 42 -------------------------------------
+ − 43 Yes, there is! See here.
+ − 44
+ − 45
+ − 46 After starting masmail, I get the following message: "could
+ − 47 not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"
+ − 48 -----------------------------------------------------------
+ − 49 Set the set-user-id-bit with chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail.
+ − 50
+ − 51
+ − 52 After starting masmail, I get the following message: "bind:
+ − 53 (terminating): Address already in use"
+ − 54 -----------------------------------------------------------
+ − 55 This means that there is already a process listening on a port,
+ − 56 usually 25. You either have another MTA running in background
+ − 57 (sendmail, exim, etc...) or another instance of masqmail.
+ − 58
+ − 59 It may also mean that the ports you configured MM to listen to
+ − 60 (with 'listen_addresses') are on the same IP address, eg. you may
+ − 61 have set your hostname to 127.0.0.1 and try to listen on localhost
+ − 62 and your host name. In this case either set your hostname to
+ − 63 another IP address or delete one of the conflicting entries.
+ − 64
+ − 65
+ − 66 My friends told me that they do not see my full name in their
+ − 67 inbox, although it is configured in my mail client.
+ − 68 -------------------------------------------------------------
+ − 69 You probably used the map_h_from_addresses feature in the route
+ − 70 configuration and forgot to set your real name. The syntax is:
+ − 71
+ − 72 map_h_from_addresses = "charlie:Charlie Miller <cmiller@foo.com>";
+ − 73
+ − 74 Do not forget the Charlie Miller.
+ − 75
+ − 76
+ − 77 With connection method file, I get the following message in
+ − 78 the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: Permission
+ − 79 denied".
+ − 80 ------------------------------------------------------------
+ − 81 In your ip-up script, you have to set read permission to the user
+ − 82 masqmail runs as. After you write the file with the connection
+ − 83 name, set read permission to all with chmod ugo+r file.
+ − 84
+ − 85
+ − 86 With connection method file, I get the following message in
+ − 87 the log file: "route with name name not found.".
+ − 88 -----------------------------------------------------------
+ − 89 Check whether the name in the file is really identical to name you
+ − 90 gave to the route configuration (case sensitive!).
+ − 91
+ − 92
+ − 93 I found a bug.
+ − 94 --------------
+ − 95 Make sure you are using the newest version, in case of doubt
+ − 96 search it in freshmeat. If you do, tell me. See also the section
+ − 97 bugs on the main page.
+ − 98
+ − 99
+ − 100 I think I found a bug, but I am not sure whether I configured
+ − 101 MasqMail incorrectly.
+ − 102 -------------------------------------------------------------
+ − 103 Don't care. Tell me. Or write to the mailing list.
+ − 104
+ − 105
+ − 106
+ − 107 Written by Oliver Kurth
+ − 108 Last modified by him: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000
