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removed the old manual because it is really outdated now In masqmail's 0.3 branch, so much changed that the old manual causes more harm than it improves the distribution. Most content is covered by the man pages anyway. You'll still find the old manual on masqmail's homepage.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:06:08 +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