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Fixed segfault, caused by a stupid g_strchug/g_strstrip implementation.
| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:33:40 +0100 (2012-02-29) |
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| 67 | 1 Masqmail README |
| 2 =============== | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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: | |
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| 67 | 42 http://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail |
| 43 | |
| 44 The email address of it's mailing list is: | |
| 45 | |
| 46 <masqmail@marmaro.de> | |
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| 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>. | |
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| 67 | 53 |
| 54 INSTALLATION | |
| 55 ------------ | |
| 0 | 56 |
| 57 For installation instructions, see INSTALL. | |
| 58 | |
| 67 | 59 |
| 60 BUGS | |
| 61 ---- | |
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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. |
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| 66 See docs/howto-report-bugs for detailed instructions. | |
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| 68 | |
| 69 CREDITS | |
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| 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. |
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| 79 This file was originally written by by Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>. | |
| 80 Later updated and extended by markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>. |