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Removed ident. This had been discussed on the mailing list in Oct 2011. Ident is hardly useful in typical setups for masqmail. Probably Oliver had used it in his setup; that would make sense. Now, I know of nobody who needs it.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:36:58 +0100
parents 72653295b75d
children d209b4846f2b
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64 --with-confdir=CONFDIR 64 --with-confdir=CONFDIR
65 sets the default configuration directory to CONFDIR, in case you 65 sets the default configuration directory to CONFDIR, in case you
66 prefer another location than /etc/masqmail/. 66 prefer another location than /etc/masqmail/.
67 67
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69 --enable-ident
70 enables RFC 1413 support. If you have the libident dynamic library
71 installed, this will be linked, otherwise it will be statically linked
72 using the sources included in the package. Ident support brings few
73 advantages. If mail is received from machines that run identd, the
74 Received headers and log messages include a user name too. Additionally
75 a user can remove queued mail if it had been sent by himself from another
76 machine running identd. In any case: You cannot trust the ident
77 information more than you trust the specific remote machine.
78 68
79 --disable-resolver 69 --disable-resolver
80 disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail 70 disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail
81 uses only gethostbyname() to resolve DNS names, and you cannot send 71 uses only gethostbyname() to resolve DNS names, and you cannot send
82 mail without a smart host. Not recommended. 72 mail without a smart host. Not recommended.