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for -t cmdline args are now added to the rcpt list instead of substracted Please read the diff and the section about -t in man/masqmail.8. Masqmail's behavior had been like the one of exim/smail, now it's similar to postfix. Masqmail does it now the most simple way, regarding the code. Also, addr args are always recipients, -t does not change their meaning. -t makes the addrs from rcpt hdrs, rcpt addrs too. It would have been logical too, to ignore the cmdline args, in the sense of ``headers *instead of* args'' but none of the popular MTAs does it that way and it would have been a bit more complicated in the code. Anyway, this is a corner-case that should better be avoided completely.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:05:34 -0300
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1 Simple Setup
2 ============
4 You want
5 --------
7 - submit mail on stdin by calling masqmail on the commandline
8 - submit mail with SMTP from the local machine
9 - let masqmail deliver mail locally to the system mailboxes /var/mail/*
11 You have luck, because this is what masqmail does by default.
14 Set up
15 ------
17 Follow the description in INSTALL.
19 A common configure call would be:
21 ./configure --enable-auth --enable-ident
24 Configuration
25 -------------
27 You just need a minimal config file, having one line:
29 host_name = "foo.example.org"
31 (Substitute a real value, of course.)
34 Starting the daemon
35 -------------------
37 Listening for SMTP connections on a port requires masqmail to run as
38 daemon. You probably want to start masqmail as daemon each time the
39 system comes up. How you have to do that is system dependent.
40 /etc/rc.local is a good try to add the daemon call, because this file
41 seems to be frequently available.
43 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q10m
45 This starts masqmail in daemon mode and does a queue run every ten
46 minutes.
49 Check the setup
50 ---------------
52 Ensure you have the sendmail links correct:
54 $ ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
55 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-06 13:50 /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/masqmail*
56 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-06 13:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/masqmail*
58 Send a mail to yourself:
60 $ echo "some text" | mail `whoami`
62 Check if the mail was delivered (then delete it and quit):
64 $ mail
65 Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
66 "/var/mail/meillo": 1 message 1 new
67 >N 1 meillo@serveme.sc Wed Jul 14 22:50 13/467
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69 Message 1:
70 From <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local> Wed Jul 14 22:50:13 2010
71 Envelope-to: <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local>
72 To: meillo
73 From: <meillo@serveme.schnalke.local>
74 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:50:13 +0200
76 some text
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82 In case of problems
83 -------------------
85 Have a look at the log file: /var/log/masqmail/masqmail.log
87 Set the debug level in masqmail.conf, restart the daemon, redo the
88 test, and look at the debug file: /var/log/masqmail/debug.log
90 Ask on the mailing list: <masqmail@marmaro.de>
94 meillo