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improved INSTALL (2nd sendmail link)
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:23:40 +0200
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141 Making masqmail the default 141 Making masqmail the default
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143 143
144 `sendmail' is the de-facto standard name of the system's MTA, no 144 `sendmail' is the de-facto standard name of the system's MTA, no
145 matter which MTA actually runs. If you want to make masqmail the 145 matter which MTA actually runs. If you want to make masqmail the
146 system's MTA (i.e. replace sendmail, postfix, etc), make a symbolic 146 system's MTA (i.e. replace sendmail, postfix, etc), make two symbolic
147 link: 147 links:
148 148
149 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/lib/sendmail 149 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/lib/sendmail
150 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
150 151
151 Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail. 152 Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail.
152 If you already had an MTA installed and running, you can kill it and 153 If you already had an MTA installed and running, you can kill it and
153 start masqmail. Probably with: 154 start masqmail. Probably with:
154 155
182 (Substitute `HOSTNAME' with the real value, of course.) 183 (Substitute `HOSTNAME' with the real value, of course.)
183 184
184 Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does: 185 Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does:
185 - deliver mail locally 186 - deliver mail locally
186 - accept mail from local (via stdin) 187 - accept mail from local (via stdin)
187 - accept mail on localhost:25 (via SMTP) 188 - accept mail on localhost:25 (via SMTP) (if started as daemon)
189
188 It does not 190 It does not
189 - transfer any mail to other machines 191 - transfer mail to other machines
190 - accept mail from outside your machine 192 - accept mail from outside your machine
191 193
192 194
193 For more elaborate setups, have a look at docs/*setup and 195 For more elaborate setups, have a look at docs/*setup and
194 docs/INSTALL*. You can also take the example configuration files in 196 docs/INSTALL*. You can also take the example configuration files in