masqmail
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removed --with-glib-static configure option
linking glib statically is interesting if no other program uses it
on today's systems glib is widely used
if one cares on linking statically, he can link everything statically
the special case for glib will not get special care anymore
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:48:17 +0200 |
| parents | 5beb5d6d9623 |
| children | 5745edd5b769 |
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1 Additional information may be available in docs/ or on the website.
2 For installing on GNU/Linux distributions read docs/INSTALL.linux.
5 Installation instructions
6 -------------------------
8 To compile masqmail you need glib (>= 1.2) (http://www.gtk.org). Your
9 distribution probably provides it. Glib-2.0 works out of the box, for
10 glib-1.2, you need to adjust configure.ac. See the comment in there.
12 You need a user and a group for masqmail to run. If
14 grep '^mail:' /etc/passwd
15 grep '^trusted:' /etc/group
17 shows that the user `mail' and the group `trusted' exist, it's
18 probably best to use these. If they don't exist, create them:
20 groupadd -g 42 trusted
21 useradd -u 23 -g trusted -d /nonexistent -s /bin/false -c "masqmail MTA" mail
23 If you use other names than `mail' and `trusted' use the options
24 described below for configure. The 23 and 42 are just a suggestion,
25 you can use any (not yet used) number you like, but preferably one
26 lower than 100. It does not have to be the same for the user `mail'
27 and the group `trusted'.
30 Compiling is a matter of the usual procedure. In the source directory,
31 after unpacking do:
33 ./configure
34 make
35 make install
39 Additional options for configure
40 --------------------------------
42 See the output of
44 ./configure -h
46 Here is a selection of the options with additional explanations:
48 --with-user=USER
49 sets the user as which masqmail will run. Default is 'mail'. USER has
50 to exist before you 'make install'.
52 --with-group=GROUP
53 sets the group as which masqmail will run. Default is 'trusted'. GROUP
54 has to exist before you 'make install'.
57 --with-logdir=LOGDIR
58 sets the directory where masqmail stores its log files. It will be
59 created if it does not exist. Default is /var/log/masqmail/.
61 --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR
62 sets the directory where masqmail stores its spool files. It will be
63 created if it does not exist. Default is /var/spool/masqmail/.
65 --with-confdir=CONFDIR
66 sets the default configuration directory to CONFDIR, in case you
67 prefer another location than /etc/masqmail/.
70 --enable-auth
71 enables ESMTP AUTH support (disabled by default)
73 --enable-maildir
74 enables qmail style Maildir support (disabled by default)
76 --enable-ident
77 enables RFC 1413 support. If you have the libident dynamic library
78 installed, this will be linked, otherwise it will be statically linked
79 using the sources included in the package.
81 --disable-resolver
82 disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail
83 uses only gethostbyname() to resolve DNS names, and you cannot send
84 mail without a smart host. Not recommended.
86 --disable-smtp-server
87 disables SMTP server support. You may want this if you do not need
88 masqmail to listen. In this case, you cannot use masqmail as a smart
89 host for other hosts on your LAN, you cannot use mail clients that
90 send SMTP, you cannot even use pine. In short, use of this option is
91 discouraged unless your resources are extremely limited.
94 --with-libcryto
95 instead of using the md5 and hmac functions within the package, link
96 dynamically with libcrypto. This applies only if you have SMTP AUTH
97 enabled. Only makes sense if your resources are limited and you have
98 libcrypto installed. Untested.
101 --disable-debug
102 disables debugging; setting it on the command line or in the
103 configuration has no effect. Strongly discouraged, since you miss
104 valuable information if something goes wrong.
108 Checking the installation
109 -------------------------
111 Check that 'make install' worked correctly. The following command:
113 ls -ld /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /etc/masqmail /var/log/masqmail/ \
114 /var/run/masqmail /var/spool/masqmail/ /var/spool/masqmail/*
116 should give output similar to
118 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 399356 May 10 12:34 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail
119 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 12:34 /etc/masqmail
120 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/log/masqmail
121 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/run/masqmail
122 drwxr-xr-x 5 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail
123 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/input
124 drwxr-xr-x 2 mail trusted 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/lock
126 Important are the set-user-id bit for /usr/local/sbin/masqmail and
127 the permissions of all files.
131 Making masqmail the default
132 ---------------------------
134 `sendmail' is the de-facto standard name of the system's MTA, no
135 matter which MTA actually runs. If you want to make masqmail the
136 system's MTA (i.e. replace sendmail, postfix, etc), make two symbolic
137 links:
139 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/lib/sendmail
140 ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
142 Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail.
143 If you already had an MTA installed and running, you can kill it and
144 start masqmail. Probably with:
146 /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
148 If this doesn't work as expected, you might need to add a special init
149 script for masqmail. Currently none is distributed with masqmail.
150 (Hopefully this will change soon.) Please ask on the mailing list for
151 help.
153 You can also directly start masqmail as daemon with:
155 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q30m
159 Basic Configuration
160 -------------------
162 The only thing you must configure in order to use masqmail is the
163 hostname. It's the name under which masqmail operates. In most cases
164 it is the same as the machine's name, but it can be different.
166 The script `contrib/guess-hostname' tries to print the hostname of
167 your machine. The first output line is probably the best choice.
169 Create a minimal config with:
171 echo "host_name = HOSTNAME" >/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
173 (Substitute `HOSTNAME' with the real value, of course.)
175 Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does:
176 - deliver mail locally
177 - accept mail from local (via stdin)
178 - accept mail on localhost:25 (via SMTP) (if started as daemon)
180 It does not
181 - transfer mail to other machines
182 - accept mail from outside your machine
185 For more elaborate setups, have a look at docs/*setup and
186 docs/INSTALL*. You can also take the example configuration files in
187 examples/ as basis for your own. Take the man pages masqmail.conf(5)
188 and masqmail.route(5) for reference.
190 All configuration files should go into /etc/masqmail.
194 Written by oku.
195 Improved by meillo.