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| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:38:55 +0200 |
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1 .TH masqmail.conf 5 2011-08-27 masqmail-0.3.3 "File Formats"
3 .SH NAME
4 masqmail.conf \- masqmail configuration file
7 .SH DESCRIPTION
9 This man page describes the syntax of the main configuration file of masqmail.
10 Its usual location is \fI/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf\fR
12 The configuration consists of lines of the form
14 \fBval\fR = \fIexpression\fR
16 Where \fBval\fR is a variable name and \fIexpression\fR a string,
17 which can be quoted with double quotes `"'.
18 If the expression is on multiple lines or contains characters other than letters,
19 digits or the characters `.', `-', `_', `/', ';', '@', ':', it must be quoted.
20 You can use quotes inside quotes by escaping them with a backslash.
22 Each \fBval\fP has a type, which can be boolean, numeric, string or list.
23 A boolean variable can be set with one of the values `on', `yes', and `true' or `off', `no' and `false'.
24 List items are separated with semicolons `;'.
25 For some values, patterns (like `*',`?') can be used.
26 The spaces in front of and after the equal sign `=' are optional.
28 Most lists (exceptions: \fBlocal_hosts\fR, \fBlocal_nets\fR, \fBlisten_addresses\fR,
29 and \fBonline_routes\fR) accept files.
30 These will be recognized by a leading slash `/'.
31 The contents of these files will be included at the position of the file name,
32 there can be items or other files before and after the file entry.
33 The format of the files is different though, within these files each entry is on another line
34 and the entries are not separated by semicolons.
35 This makes it easy to include large lists which are common in different configuration files,
36 so they do not have to appear in every configuration file.
38 Blank lines and lines starting with a hash `#' are ignored.
41 .SH OPTIONS
43 .TP
44 \fBrun_as_user = \fIboolean\fR
46 If this is set, masqmail runs with the user id of the user who invoked it and never changes it.
47 This is for debugging purposes only.
48 If the user is not root, masqmail will not be able to listen on a port < 1024
49 and will not be able to deliver local mail to others than the user.
51 .TP
52 \fBuse_syslog = \fIboolean\fR
54 If this is set, masqmail uses syslogd for logging.
55 It uses facility MAIL.
56 You still have to set \fBlog_dir\fR for debug files.
58 .TP
59 \fBdebug_level = \fIn\fR
61 Set the debug level.
62 Valid values are 0 to 6 and 9.
63 Be careful if you set this as high as 5 or higher,
64 the logs may very soon fill your hard drive.
65 Level 9 enables printing of debug messages to stderr during reading of
66 the config file.
67 The debug file comes available for the first time after this step.
68 Thus nothing but stderr is available.
69 Level 9 is almost never interesting.
71 .TP
72 \fBlog_dir = \fIfile\fR
74 The directory where logs are stored, if syslog is not used.
75 Debug files are always stored in this directory if debugging is enabled.
76 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
78 Default: \fI/var/log/masqmail\fR
80 .TP
81 \fBmail_dir = \fIfile\fR
83 The directory where local mail is stored, usually \fI/var/spool/mail\fR or \fI/var/mail\fR.
84 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
86 Default: \fI/var/mail\fR
88 .TP
89 \fBspool_dir = \fIfile\fR
91 The directory where masqmail stores its spool files (and later also other stuff).
92 It must have a subdirectory \fIinput\fR.
93 Masqmail needs read and write permissions for this directory.
94 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
96 Default: \fI/var/spool/masqmail\fR
98 .TP
99 \fBlock_dir = \fIfile\fR
101 The directory where masqmail stores its lock files.
102 Masqmail needs read and write permissions for this directory.
103 By default it is a directory ``lock'' inside of \fIspool_dir\fP.
104 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
106 .TP
107 \fBhost_name = \fIstring\fR
109 This is used in different places: Masqmail identifies itself in the greeting banner
110 on incoming connections and in the HELO/EHLO command for outgoing connections with this name,
111 it is used in the Received: header and to qualify the sender of a locally originating message.
113 If the string begins with a slash `/', it it assumed that it is a filename,
114 and the first line of this file will be used.
115 Usually this will be `/etc/mailname' to make masqmail conform to Debian policies.
117 It is not used to find whether an address is local. Use \fBlocal_hosts\fR for that.
119 Default: none; \fBhost_name\fP MUST be set in the config file
121 .TP
122 \fBlocal_hosts = \fIlist\fR
124 A semicolon `;' separated list of hostnames which are considered local.
125 Normally you should set it to "localhost;foo;foo.bar.com" if your host has the
126 fully qualified domain name `foo.bar.com'.
128 Default: localhost ; <value of \fBhost_name\fR cut at the first dot> ; <value of \fBhost_name\fR>
130 Example: \fIlocalhost;foo;foo.example.org\fR
131 (if you have set \fBhost_name\fR to \fIfoo.example.org\fR)
133 .TP
134 \fBlocal_addresses = \fIlist\fR
136 A semicolon `;' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses which are
137 considered local although their domain name part is not in the list of \fBlocal_hosts\fR.
138 This list can be seen as an addition to \fBlocal_hosts\fP.
140 Further more only the local part of the addresses will be regarded,
141 seeing it as a local user.
143 Example: \fIlocal_addresses = "person1@yourdomain;person2@yourdomain"\fP
145 This means mail to person1@yourdomain will effectively go to
146 person1@localhost, if not redirected by an alias.
148 .TP
149 \fBnot_local_addresses = \fIlist\fR
151 A semicolon `;' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses which are
152 considered not local although their domain name part is in the list of \fBlocal_hosts\fR.
153 This list can be seen as a substraction to \fBlocal_hosts\fP.
155 This is the opposite of the previous case.
156 The majority of addresses of a specific domain are local.
157 But some users are not.
158 With this option you can easily exclude these users.
160 Example:
162 local_hosts = "localhost;myhost;mydomain.net"
164 not_local_addresses = "eric@mydomain.net"
166 .TP
167 \fBlocal_nets = \fIlist\fR
169 A semicolon `;' separated list of hostnames which are on the `local' net.
170 Delivery to these hosts is attempted immediately.
171 You can use patterns with `*', e.g. "*.bar.com".
173 .TP
174 \fBlisten_addresses = \fIlist\fR
176 A semicolon `;' separated list of interfaces on which connections will be accepted.
177 An interface ist defined by a hostname, optionally followed by a colon `:' and a number for the port.
178 If this is left out, port 25 will be used.
180 You can set this to "localhost:25;foo:25" if your hostname is `foo'.
182 Note that the names are resolved to IP addreses.
183 If your host has different names which resolve to the same IP,
184 use only one of them, otherwise you will get an error message.
186 Default: \fIlocalhost:25\fR (i.e. only local processes can connect)
188 .TP
189 \fBdo_save_envelope_to = \fIboolean\fR
191 If this is set to true, a possibly existing Envelope-to: header in an incoming mail
192 which is received via either pop3 or smtp will be saved as an X-Orig-Envelope-to: header.
194 This is useful if you retrieve mail from a pop3 server with fetchmail,
195 and the server supports Envelope-to: headers,
196 and you want to make use of those with a mail filtering tool, e.g. procmail.
197 It cannot be preserved because masqmail sets such a header by itself.
199 Default is false.
201 .TP
202 \fBdo_relay = \fIboolean\fR
204 If this is set to false, mail with a return path that is not local and a destination
205 that is also not local will not be accepted via smtp and a 550 reply will be given.
206 Default is true.
208 Note that this will not protect you from spammers using open relays,
209 but from users unable to set their address in their mail clients.
211 .TP
212 \fBdo_queue = \fIboolean\fR
214 If this is set, mail will not be delivered immediately when accepted.
215 Same as calling masqmail with the \fB\-odq\fR option.
217 .TP
218 \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR = \fIlist\fR
220 Replace \fIname\fR with a name to identify a connection.
221 Set this to a filename (or a list of filenames) for the special route configuration for that connection.
222 You will use that name to call masqmail with the \fB\-qo\fR option every time a
223 connection to your ISP is set up.
225 Example: Your ISP has the name FastNet.
226 Then you write the following line in the main configuration:
228 \fBonline_routes.FastNet\fR = \fI"/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route"\fR
230 \fI/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route\fR is the route configuration file, see \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR.
231 As soon as a link to FastNet has been set up, you call masqmail \fB\-qo \fIFastNet\fR.
232 Masqmail will then read the specified file and send the mails.
234 .TP
235 \fBconnect_route.\fIname\fR = \fIlist\fR
237 Old name for \fBonline_routes\fR.
239 .TP
240 \fBlocal_net_route = \fIfile\fR
242 This is similar to \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR but used for delilvery to the local net.
243 Recipient addresses that are in local_nets will be routed using this route configuration.
244 Main purpose is to define a mail server with mail_host in your local network.
245 In simple environments this can be left unset.
246 If unset, a default route configuration (named ``default local_net_route'') will be used.
248 .TP
249 \fBalias_file = \fIfile\fR
251 Set this to the location of your alias file.
252 If not set, no aliasing will be done.
254 Default: <not set> (i.e. no aliasing is done)
256 .TP
257 \fBcaseless_matching = \fIboolean\fR
259 If this is set, aliasing and the matching for \fBlocal_addresses\fP and
260 \fBnot_local_addresses\fP will be done caseless.
262 Note: Be sure to change this option only if the queue is empty as
263 correct processing of queued messages is not guaranteed otherwise.
265 Default: false
267 .TP
268 \fBpipe_fromline = \fIboolean\fR
270 If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
271 a pipe command is called after an alias expansion.
272 Default is false.
274 .TP
275 \fBpipe_fromhack = \fIboolean\fR
277 If this is set, each line beginning with `From ' is replaced with `>From '
278 whenever a pipe command is called after an alias expansion.
279 You probably want this if you have set \fBpipe_fromline\fR above.
280 Default is false.
282 .TP
283 \fBmbox_default = \fIstring\fR
285 The default local delivery method.
286 Can be mbox or mda.
287 You can override this for each user by using the \fBmbox_users\fR or \fBmda_users\fR (see below).
289 Default: mbox.
291 .TP
292 \fBmbox_users = \fIlist\fR
294 A list of users which wish delivery to an mbox style mail folder.
296 .TP
297 \fBmda_users = \fIlist\fR
299 A list of users which wish local delivery to an mda.
300 You have to set \fBmda\fR (see below) as well.
302 .TP
303 \fBmda = \fIexpand string\fR
305 If you want local delivery to be transferred to an mda (Mail Delivery Agent),
306 set this to a command.
307 The argument will be expanded on delivery time,
308 you can use variables beginning with a dolloar sign `$', optionally enclosed in curly braces.
309 Variables you can use are:
311 uid - the unique message id.
312 This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.
314 received_host - the host the mail was received from
316 ident - the ident, this is either the ident delivered by the ident protocol
317 or the user id of the sender if the message was received locally.
319 return_path_local - the local part of the return path (sender).
321 return_path_domain - the domain part of the return path (sender).
323 return_path - the complete return path (sender).
325 rcpt_local - the local part of the recipient.
327 rcpt_domain - the domain part of the recipient.
329 rcpt - the complete recipient address.
331 Example:
333 mda="/usr/bin/procmail \-Y \-d ${rcpt_local}"
335 For the mda, as for pipe commands, a few environment variables will be set as well.
336 See \fBmasqmail(8)\fR.
337 To use environment variables for the mda, the dollar sign `$' has to be escaped with a backslash,
338 otherwise they will be tried to be expanded with the internal variables.
340 .TP
341 \fBmda_fromline = \fIboolean\fR
343 If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
344 a message is delivered to an mda.
345 Default is false.
347 .TP
348 \fBmda_fromhack = \fIboolean\fR
350 If this is set, each line beginning with `From ' is replaced with `>From '
351 whenever a message is delivered to an mda.
352 You probably want this if you have set \fBmda_fromline\fR above.
353 Default is false.
355 .TP
356 \fBonline_query = \fIcommand line\fR
358 Defines the method masqmail uses to detect whether there exists an online connection currently.
360 Masqmail executes the command given and reads from its standard output.
361 The command should just print a route name, as defined
362 with \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR, to standard output and return a zero status code.
363 Masqmail assumes it is offline if the script returns with a non-zero status.
364 Leading and trailing whitespace is removed from the output.
366 Simple example:
368 .nf
369 #!/bin/sh
370 test \-e /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route || exit 1
371 cat /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route
372 exit 0
373 .fi
375 No matter how masqmail detects the online status,
376 only messages that are accepted at online time will be delivered using the connection.
377 The mail spool still needs to be emptied manually
378 (\fB\-qo\fIconnection\fR).
380 \fIcommand line\fR must start with an absolute path to an executable program.
381 It can contain optional arguments.
383 To simulate the old online_method=file, use:
384 \fI/bin/cat /path/to/file\fP
386 To be always online with connection `foo', use:
387 \fI/bin/echo foo\fP
389 To query a masqdialer server
390 (i.e. asking it whether a connection exists and what its name is)
391 use:
392 \fI/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 224\fP
395 .TP
396 \fBident_trusted_nets = \fIlist\fR
398 \fIlist\fR is a list of networks of the form a.b.c.d/e (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24),
399 from which the ident given by the ident protocol will be trusted,
400 so a user can delete his mail from the queue if the ident is identical to his login name.
402 .TP
403 \fBerrmsg_file = \fIfile\fR
405 Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery failure reports.
406 Variable parts within the template begin with a dollar sign and are identical
407 to those which can be used as arguments for the mda command, see \fBmda\fR above.
408 Additional information can be included with @failed_rcpts, @msg_headers and @msg_body,
409 these must be at the beginning of a line and will be replaced with the list of the failed recipients,
410 the message headers and the message body of the failed message.
412 Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl.
414 .TP
415 \fBwarnmsg_file = \fIfile\fR
417 Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery warning reports.
418 It uses the same mechanisms for variables as \fBerrmsg_file\fR, see above.
420 Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/warnmsg.tpl.
422 .TP
423 \fBwarn_intervals\fR = \fIlist\fR
425 Set this to a list of time intervals, at which delivery warnings
426 (starting with the receiving time of the message) shall be generated.
428 A warning will only be generated just after an attempt to deliver the mail
429 and if that attempt failed temporarily.
430 So a warning may be generated after a longer time, if there was no attempt before.
432 Default is "1h;4h;8h;1d;2d;3d"
434 .TP
435 \fBmax_defer_time\fR = \fItime\fR
437 This is the maximum time, in which a temporarily failed mail will be kept in the spool.
438 When this time is exceeded, it will be handled as a delivery failure,
439 and the message will be bounced.
441 The excedence of this time will only be noticed if the message was actually tried to be delivered.
442 If, for example, the message can only be delivered when online,
443 but you have not been online for that time, no bounce will be generated.
445 Default is 4d (4 days)
447 .TP
448 \fBlog_user = \fIname\fR
450 Replace \fIname\fR with a valid local or remote mail address.
452 If this option is set, then a copy of every mail,
453 that passes through the masqmail system will also be sent to the given mail address.
455 For example you can feed your mails into a program like hypermail
456 for archiving purpose by placing an appropriate pipe command in masqmail.alias
458 .TP
459 \fBmax_msg_size\fR = \fIbytes\fR
461 This option sets the maximum size in bytes masqmail will accept for delivery.
462 This value is advertised to the SMTP client by the `SIZE' message during SMTP
463 session setup.
464 Clients pretending to send, or actually send,
465 more than \fIbytes\fR will get a 552 error message.
467 `0' means no fixed maximum size limit is in force.
469 Default is 0 (= unlimited).
471 .TP
472 \fBdefer_all\fR = \fIboolean\fR
474 If set to true, masqmail replies with ``421 service temporarily unavailable''
475 to any SMTP request and shuts the connection down.
476 Note: This option is for debugging purposes only.
478 Default: false
481 .SH AUTHOR
483 Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth.
484 It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>.
486 You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR.
487 There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site.
490 .SH BUGS
492 Please report bugs to the mailing list.
495 .SH SEE ALSO
497 \fBmasqmail(8)\fR, \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR