masqmail
diff INSTALL @ 59:941413084f56
updated docs; moved files around
updated the INSTALL file with content from the old website
moved *agenda* and *ipaq files to docs (are they still relevant?)
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Sat, 29 May 2010 22:53:42 +0200 |
parents | 08114f7dcc23 |
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1.1 --- a/INSTALL Sat May 29 22:33:10 2010 +0200 1.2 +++ b/INSTALL Sat May 29 22:53:42 2010 +0200 1.3 @@ -1,46 +1,40 @@ 1.4 -simple installation instructions, see docs/install.html for more. 1.5 +Additional information may be available in docs/ or on the website. 1.6 +For installing on GNU/Linux distributions read docs/linux-distris. 1.7 1.8 -To compile MasqMail you need glib 1.2 (http://www.gtk.org). 1.9 + 1.10 +Installation instructions 1.11 +------------------------- 1.12 + 1.13 +To compile masqmail you need glib 1.2 (http://www.gtk.org). 1.14 1.15 You need a user and a group for masqmail to run, I suggest user 1.16 'mail' and group 'trusted'. Say: 1.17 1.18 -groupadd -g 42 trusted 1.19 -useradd -u 42 -g 42 -d / -s /bin/sh -c "Mail Transfer Agent" mail 1.20 + groupadd -g 42 trusted 1.21 + useradd -u 42 -g 42 -d / -s /bin/sh -c "Mail Transfer Agent" mail 1.22 1.23 If you use other names than 'mail' and 'trusted' use the options 1.24 described below for configure. The 42 is just a suggestion, you can 1.25 use any number you like, but preferably one < 100. It does not have 1.26 to be the same for the user 'mail' and the group 'trusted'. 1.27 1.28 -Then do: 1.29 +Compliling is a matter of the usual procedure. In the source directory, 1.30 +after unpacking do: 1.31 1.32 -./configure 1.33 -make 1.34 -make install 1.35 + ./configure 1.36 + make 1.37 + make install 1.38 1.39 -Debian: 1.40 -If you compile for Debian, do the configure with at least these options, 1.41 -this makes it compatible with the official debian package: 1.42 -./configure --with-liblockfile --with-group=mail 1.43 -you do not need the group 'trusted', use 'mail' instead. 1.44 1.45 -You can also build your own Debian package with 1.46 -dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot 1.47 -You need to have fakeroot installed to do this. Or, as root, do: 1.48 -dpkg-buildpackage 1.49 1.50 -SuSE/Redhat: 1.51 -There are spec files for rpm creation in suse/ or redhat/. You may have to adjust these files. 1.52 +Additional options for configure 1.53 +-------------------------------- 1.54 1.55 +See the output of 1.56 1.57 -Sorry, but after that you are not yet finished. For instruction on how 1.58 -to deliver mail using a connection to your ISP see 1.59 -docs/install.html. It is probably a good idea to copy the files 1.60 -docs/*.html to a directory where you can access them with a browser. 1.61 + ./configure -h 1.62 1.63 -additional options for configure: 1.64 ---------------------------------- 1.65 +Here is additional, but maybe obsolete, explanation: 1.66 1.67 --with-user=USER sets the user as which MasqMail will run. Default is 1.68 'mail'. USER has to exist before you 'make install'. 1.69 @@ -98,6 +92,8 @@ 1.70 BTW, to get 3K of space, call 1.71 strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-unneeded src/masqmail 1.72 1.73 + 1.74 + 1.75 after make install: 1.76 ------------------- 1.77 1.78 @@ -106,30 +102,95 @@ 1.79 1.80 Check that 'make install' worked correctly. The following command: 1.81 1.82 -ls -ld /usr/sbin/masqmail /var/masqmail/ /var/spool/masqmail /var/spool/masqmail/input 1.83 + ls -ld /usr/sbin/masqmail /etc/masqmail /var/log/masqmail/ \ 1.84 + /var/run/masqmail /var/spool/masqmail/ /var/spool/masqmail/* 1.85 1.86 should give output similar to 1.87 1.88 --rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 86955 Oct 14 14:27 /usr/sbin/masqmail 1.89 -drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 1024 Oct 14 14:29 /var/masqmail/ 1.90 -drwxr-xr-x 3 mail trusted 1024 Oct 14 14:27 /var/spool/masqmail 1.91 -drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 1024 Oct 14 18:32 /var/spool/masqmail/input 1.92 -drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 1024 Oct 14 18:32 /var/spool/masqmail/lock 1.93 -drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 1024 Oct 14 18:32 /var/spool/masqmail/popuidl 1.94 + -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 399356 May 10 12:34 /usr/sbin/masqmail 1.95 + drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 12:34 /etc/masqmail 1.96 + drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/log/masqmail 1.97 + drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/run/masqmail 1.98 + drwxr-xr-x 5 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail 1.99 + drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/input 1.100 + drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/lock 1.101 + drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/popuidl 1.102 1.103 (important is the set-user-id bit for /usr/sbin/masqmail and the 1.104 ownership of all items). 1.105 1.106 Use the example configuration files in examples/ to edit your own. The 1.107 -main configuration should go to /etc/masqmail.conf. I recommend to 1.108 -make a directory /etc/masqmail for the *.route amd *.get files. 1.109 +main configuration file `masqmail.conf' and the *.route and *.get files 1.110 +should go into /etc/masqmail. 1.111 1.112 -The default destination for the executable 'masqmail' is 1.113 -/usr/sbin. Check that it has the set user id bit set. (chmod u+s 1.114 -/usr/sbin/masqmail does no harm in any case). 1.115 +The default destination for the executable `masqmail' is /usr/sbin. 1.116 +Check that it has the set-uid bit set. You can set it with: 1.117 + 1.118 + chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail 1.119 1.120 If you want to replace sendmail, move your old sendmail binary to 1.121 -another name and make a symbolic link /usr/sbin/sendmail -> 1.122 -/usr/sbin/masqmail. 1.123 +another name and make a symbolic link: 1.124 1.125 + ln -s /usr/sbin/masqmail /usr/sbin/sendmail 1.126 1.127 +Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail. You 1.128 +can now kill your old sendmail if it is running and start masqmail. 1.129 + 1.130 + /sbin/init.d/sendmail restart 1.131 + 1.132 +should do that. You can also start masqmail with: 1.133 + 1.134 + /usr/sbin/masqmail -bd -q30m 1.135 + 1.136 + 1.137 + 1.138 +Configuring for online delivery 1.139 +------------------------------- 1.140 + 1.141 +(This section covers dial-up internet connections.) 1.142 + 1.143 +Now you have to set up the online configuration. The trick is to tell 1.144 +your ip-up script the connection name. You could use the IP number of 1.145 +the far side of the ppp link, but this is a pain and may change each 1.146 +time. But you can give it an additional argument via pppd with ipparam. 1.147 +Somewhere in your dial up script you have a line similar to: 1.148 + 1.149 + /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -t 90 -f $CHATFILE" \ 1.150 + -d -d -d user user@somewhere file "$OPTIONS" 1.151 + 1.152 +Just add 'ipparam FastNet' in the command line for pppd if your ISP has 1.153 +the name FastNet. The ip-up script will then get 'FastNet' as a sixth 1.154 +parameter. In your ip-up script you can then call masqmail with 1.155 + 1.156 + /usr/sbin/masqmail -qo "$6" 1.157 + 1.158 +instead of 'sendmail -q', if you had that in the script before. 1.159 +Masqmail will then read the route configuration specified for the 1.160 +connection name 'FastNet' and deliver the mail destined to the internet. 1.161 +See the configuration manual on how to write a route configuration or 1.162 +use one of the examples as a template. 1.163 + 1.164 +I do not know how do configure that for an ISDN adapter, but I am sure 1.165 +you will find something similar in the man pages. 1.166 + 1.167 +If you want mail that is received by masqmail from your local net to be 1.168 +delivered immediately using the route configuration, you have two 1.169 +possibilities: 1.170 + 1.171 +* if you are using the masqdialer system, you just have to set the 1.172 + variables online_detect to mserver and mserver_iface to the interface 1.173 + mserver is listening to. 1.174 +* otherwise you have to add two commands in your ip-up script: 1.175 + echo -n $6 > /tmp/connect_route 1.176 + chmod 644 /tmp/connect_route 1.177 + and you have to remove the file /tmp/connect_route in your ip-down script: 1.178 + rm /tmp/connect_route. 1.179 + Then you have to set online_detect to file and online_file to 1.180 + /tmp/connect_route. 1.181 + 1.182 +See the route documentation for more. 1.183 + 1.184 + 1.185 + 1.186 +Written by oku. 1.187 +Updated by meillo.