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Fixed an important bug with folded headers!
g_strconcat() returns a *copy* of the string, but hdr->value still
pointed to the old header (which probably was a memory leak, too).
If the folded part had been quite small it was likely that the new
string was at the same position as the old one, thus making everything
go well. But if pretty long headers were folded several times it was
likely that the new string was allocated somewhere else in memory,
thus breaking things. In result mails to lots of recipients (folded
header) were frequently only sent to the ones in the first line. Sorry
for the inconvenience.
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:47:27 +0200 |
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| children | 72653295b75d |
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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
68 & p
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
78 & d
79 & q
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