masqmail

diff INSTALL @ 360:7a8d706f0ff1

Added explanation about --enable-ident
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:41:02 +0200
parents 92340177150d
children 02bc0331e390
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     1.1 --- a/INSTALL	Sun Sep 04 17:40:13 2011 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/INSTALL	Sun Sep 04 17:41:02 2011 +0200
     1.3 @@ -72,7 +72,12 @@
     1.4  --enable-ident
     1.5  enables RFC 1413 support. If you have the libident dynamic library
     1.6  installed, this will be linked, otherwise it will be statically linked
     1.7 -using the sources included in the package.
     1.8 +using the sources included in the package. Ident support brings few
     1.9 +advantages. If mail is received from machines that run identd, the
    1.10 +Received headers and log messages include a user name too. Additionally
    1.11 +a user can remove queued mail if it had been sent by himself from another
    1.12 +machine running identd. In any case: You cannot trust the ident
    1.13 +information more than you trust the specific remote machine.
    1.14  
    1.15  --disable-resolver
    1.16  disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail