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local_hosts defaults to `localhost' now
this is a very basic setting
you really should set it to something like "localhost;foo;foo.example.org"
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:38:33 +0200 |
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1 .TH masqmail.conf 5 2010-07-06 masqmail-0.2.25 "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 val 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 before and after the equal sign `=' are optional.
28 Most lists (exceptions: \fBlocal_hosts\fR, \fBlocal_nets\fR, \fBlisten_addresses\fR,
29 \fBonline_routes\fR, and \fBonline_gets\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 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, increasing it further makes no difference.
63 Be careful if you set this as high as 5 or higher, the logs may very soon fill your hard drive.
65 .TP
66 \fBlog_dir = \fIfile\fR
68 The directory where log are stored, if syslog is not used.
69 Debug files are stored in this directory anyways.
70 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
72 Default: \fI/var/log/masqmail\fR
74 .TP
75 \fBmail_dir = \fIfile\fR
77 The directory where local mail is stored, usually \fI/var/spool/mail\fR or \fI/var/mail\fR.
78 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
80 Default: \fI/var/mail\fR
82 .TP
83 \fBspool_dir = \fIfile\fR
85 The directory where masqmail stores its spool files (and later also other stuff).
86 It must have a subdirectory \fIinput\fR.
87 Masqmail needs read and write permissions for this directory.
88 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
90 Default: \fI/var/spool/masqmail\fR
92 .TP
93 \fBlock_dir = \fIfile\fR
95 The directory where masqmail stores its lock files.
96 Masqmail needs read and write permissions for this directory.
97 By default it is a directory ``lock'' inside of \fIspool_dir\fP.
98 \fIfile\fR must be an absolute path.
100 .TP
101 \fBhost_name = \fIstring\fR
103 This is used in different places: Masqmail identifies itself in the greeting banner
104 on incoming connections and in the HELO/EHLO command for outgoing connections with this name,
105 it is used in the Received: header and to qualify the sender of a locally originating message.
107 If the string begins with a slash `/', it it assumed that it is a filename,
108 and the first line of this file will be used.
109 Usually this will be `/etc/mailname' to make masqmail conform to Debian policies.
111 It is not used to find whether an address is local. Use \fBlocal_hosts\fR for that.
113 .TP
114 \fBremote_port = \fIn\fR
116 The remote port number to be used. This defaults to port 25.
118 This option is deprecated.
119 Use \fBhost_name\fR in the route configuration instead.
120 See \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR.
122 .TP
123 \fBlocal_hosts = \fIlist\fR
125 A semicolon `;' separated list of hostnames which are considered local.
126 Normally you should set it to "localhost;foo;foo.bar.com" if your host has the
127 fully qualified domain name `foo.bar.com'.
129 Default: \fIlocalhost\fR
131 .TP
132 \fBlocal_nets = \fIlist\fR
134 A semicolon `;' separated list of hostnames which are on the `local' net.
135 Delivery to these hosts is attempted immediately.
136 You can use patterns with `*', e.g. "*.bar.com".
138 .TP
139 \fBlocal_addresses = \fIlist\fR
141 A semicolon `;' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses which are
142 considered local although their domain name part is not in the list of \fBlocal_hosts\fR.
144 For example: There are two people working at your LAN: person1@yourdomain and person2@yourdomain.
145 But there are other persons @yourdomain which are NOT local.
146 So you can not put yourdomain to the list of local_hosts.
147 If person1 now wants to write to person2@yourdomain and this mail should not leave the LAN then you can put
149 local_addresses = "person1@yourdomain;person2@yourdomain"
151 to your masqmail.conf.
153 .TP
154 \fBnot_local_addresses = \fIlist\fR
156 A semicolon `;' separated list of fully qualified email-addresses which are
157 considered not local although their domain name part is in the list of \fBlocal_hosts\fR.
159 This is the opposite of the previous case.
160 The majority of addresses of a specific domain are local.
161 But some users are not.
162 With this option you can easily exclude these users.
164 Example:
166 local_hosts = "localhost;myhost;mydomain.net"
168 not_local_addresses = "eric@mydomain.net"
170 .TP
171 \fBlisten_addresses = \fIlist\fR
173 A semicolon `;' separated list of interfaces on which connections will be accepted.
174 An interface ist defined by a hostname, optionally followed by a colon `:' and a number for the port.
175 If this is left out, port 25 will be used.
177 You can set this to "localhost:25;foo:25" if your hostname is `foo'.
179 Note that the names are resolved to IP addreses.
180 If your host has different names which resolve to the same IP,
181 use only one of them, otherwise you will get an error message.
183 .TP
184 \fBdo_save_envelope_to = \fIboolean\fR
186 If this is set to true, a possibly existing Envelope-to: header in an incoming mail
187 which is received via either pop3 or smtp will be saved as an X-Orig-Envelope-to: header.
189 This is useful if you retrieve mail from a pop3 server with either masqmail or fetchmail,
190 and the server supports Envelope-to: headers,
191 and you want to make use of those with a mail filtering tool, e.g. procmail.
192 It cannot be preserved because masqmail sets such a header by itself.
194 Default is false.
196 .TP
197 \fBdo_relay = \fIboolean\fR
199 If this is set to false, mail with a return path that is not local and a destination
200 that is also not local will not be accepted via smtp and a 550 reply will be given.
201 Default is true.
203 Note that this will not protect you from spammers using open relays,
204 but from users unable to set their address in their mail clients.
206 .TP
207 \fBdo_queue = \fIboolean\fR
209 If this is set, mail will not be delivered immediately when accepted.
210 Same as calling masqmail with the \fB\-odq\fR option.
212 .TP
213 \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR = \fIlist\fR
215 Replace \fIname\fR with a name to identify a connection.
216 Set this to a filename (or a list of filenames) for the special route configuration for that connection.
217 You will use that name to call masqmail with the \fB\-qo\fR option every time a
218 connection to your ISP is set up.
220 Example: Your ISP has the name FastNet.
221 Then you write the following line in the main configuration:
223 \fBonline_routes.FastNet\fR = \fI"/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route"\fR
225 \fI/etc/masqmail/fastnet.route\fR is the route configuration file, see \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR.
226 As soon as a link to FastNet has been set up, you call masqmail \fB\-qo \fIFastNet\fR.
227 Masqmail will then read the specified file and send the mails.
229 .TP
230 \fBconnect_route.\fIname\fR = \fIlist\fR
232 Old name for \fBonline_routes\fR.
234 .TP
235 \fBlocal_net_route = \fIfile\fR
237 This is similar to \fBonline_routes.\fIname\fR but for the local net.
238 Recipient addresses that are in local_nets will be routed using this route configuration.
239 Main purpose is to define a mail server with mail_host in your local network.
240 In simple environments this can be left unset.
241 If unset, a default route configuration will be used.
243 .TP
244 \fBalias_file = \fIfile\fR
246 Set this to the location of your alias file.
247 If unset, no aliasing will be done.
249 .TP
250 \fBalias_local_caseless = \fIboolean\fR
252 If this is set, local parts in the alias file will be matched disregarding upper/lower case.
254 .TP
255 \fBpipe_fromline = \fIboolean\fR
257 If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
258 a pipe command is called after an alias expansion.
259 Default is false.
261 .TP
262 \fBpipe_fromhack = \fIboolean\fR
264 If this is set, each line beginning with `From ' is replaced with `>From '
265 whenever a pipe command is called after an alias expansion.
266 You probably want this if you have set \fBpipe_fromline\fR above.
267 Default is false.
269 .TP
270 \fBmbox_default = \fIstring\fR
272 The default local delivery method.
273 Can be one of mbox, mda or maildir (the latter only if maildir support is enabled at compile time).
274 Default is mbox.
275 You can override this for each user by using the \fBmbox_users\fR, \fBmda_users\fR,
276 or \fBmaildir_users\fR options (see below).
278 .TP
279 \fBmbox_users = \fIlist\fR
281 A list of users which wish delivery to an mbox style mail folder.
283 .TP
284 \fBmda_users = \fIlist\fR
286 A list of users which wish local delivery to an mda.
287 You have to set \fBmda\fR (see below) as well.
289 .TP
290 \fBmaildir_users = \fIlist\fR
292 A list of users which wish delivery to a qmail style maildir.
293 The path to maildir is ~/Maildir/.
294 The maildir will be created if it does not exist.
296 .TP
297 \fBmda = \fIexpand string\fR
299 If you want local delivery to be transferred to an mda (Mail Delivery Agent),
300 set this to a command.
301 The argument will be expanded on delivery time,
302 you can use variables beginning with a dolloar sign `$', optionally enclosed in curly braces.
303 Variables you can use are:
305 uid - the unique message id.
306 This is not necessarily identical with the Message ID as given in the Message ID: header.
308 received_host - the host the mail was received from
310 ident - the ident, this is either the ident delivered by the ident protocol
311 or the user id of the sender if the message was received locally.
313 return_path_local - the local part of the return path (sender).
315 return_path_domain - the domain part of the return path (sender).
317 return_path - the complete return path (sender).
319 rcpt_local - the local part of the recipient.
321 rcpt_domain - the domain part of the recipient.
323 rcpt - the complete recipient address.
325 Example:
327 mda="/usr/bin/procmail \-Y \-d ${rcpt_local}"
329 For the mda, as for pipe commands, a few environment variables will be set as well.
330 See \fBmasqmail(8)\fR.
331 To use environment variables for the mda, the dollar sign `$' has to be escaped with a backslash,
332 otherwise they will be tried to be expanded with the internal variables.
334 .TP
335 \fBmda_fromline = \fIboolean\fR
337 If this is set, a from line will be prepended to the output stream whenever
338 a message is delivered to an mda.
339 Default is false.
341 .TP
342 \fBmda_fromhack = \fIboolean\fR
344 If this is set, each line beginning with `From ' is replaced with `>From '
345 whenever a message is delivered to an mda.
346 You probably want this if you have set \fBmda_fromline\fR above.
347 Default is false.
349 .TP
350 \fBonline_detect = \fIstring\fR
352 Defines the method masqmail uses to detect whether there is currently an online connection.
353 It can have the values \fIfile\fR, \fIpipe\fR, or \fImserver\fR.
355 When it is set to \fIfile\fR, masqmail first checks for the existence of \fBonline_file\fR
356 (see below) and if it exists, it reads it.
357 The content of the file should be the name of the current connection as defined
358 with \fBconnect_route.\fIname\fR (trailing whitespace is removed).
360 When it is set to \fIpipe\fR, masqmail calls the executable given by the
361 \fBonline_pipe\fR option (see below) and reads the current online status from its standard output.
363 When it is set to \fImserver\fR, masqmail connects to the masqdialer server
364 using the value of \fBmserver_iface\fR and asks it whether a connection exists and for the name,
365 which should be the name of the current connection as defined with \fBconnect_route.\fIname\fR.
366 \fBThe mserver detection method is OBSOLETE.\fR
367 See mserver_iface for a note on how to replace it.
369 No matter how masqmail detects the online status,
370 only messages that are accepted at online time will be delivered using the connection.
371 The spool still has to be emptied with masqmail \fB\-qo\fIconnection\fR.
373 .TP
374 \fBonline_file = \fIfile\fR
376 This is the name of the file checked for when masqmail determines whether it is online.
377 The file should only exist when there is currently a connection.
378 Create it in your ip-up script with e.g.
380 echo "connection-name" >/var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route
382 chmod 0644 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route
384 Do not forget to delete it in your ip-down script.
386 .TP
387 \fBonline_pipe = \fIfile\fR
389 This is the name of the executable which will be called to determine the online status.
390 This executable should just print the name of the current connection to
391 the standard output and return a zero status code.
392 masqmail assumes it is offline if the script returns with a non zero status.
393 Simple example:
395 #!/bin/sh
397 [ \-e /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route ] || exit 1
399 cat /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route
401 exit 0
403 Of course, instead of the example above you could as well use \fIfile\fR as
404 the online detection method, but you can do something more sophisticated.
406 .TP
407 \fBmserver_iface = \fIinterface\fR
409 \fBThis option is OBSOLETE\fP, use
411 online_method=pipe
413 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
415 instead.
417 The interface the masqdialer server is listening to.
418 Usually this will be "localhost:224" if mserver is running on the same host as masqmail.
419 But using this option, you can also let masqmail run on another host by setting
420 \fBmserver_iface\fR to another hostname, e.g. "foo:224".
422 .TP
423 \fBget.\fIname\fR = \fIfile\fR
425 Replace \fIname\fR with a name to identify a get configuration.
426 Set this to a filename for the get configuration.
427 These files will be used to retrieve mail when called with the \-g option.
429 .TP
430 \fBonline_gets.\fIname\fR = \fIlist\fR
432 Replace \fIname\fR with a name to identify an online configuration.
433 Set this to a filename (or a list of filenames) for the get configuration.
434 These files will be used to retrieve mail when called with the \-go option.
436 .TP
437 \fBident_trusted_nets = \fIlist\fR
439 \fIlist\fR is a list of networks of the form a.b.c.d/e (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24),
440 from which the ident given by the ident protocol will be trusted,
441 so a user can delete his mail from the queue if the ident is identical to his login name.
443 .TP
444 \fBerrmsg_file = \fIfile\fR
446 Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery failure reports.
447 Variable parts within the template begin with a dollar sign and are identical
448 to those which can be used as arguments for the mda command, see \fBmda\fR above.
449 Additional information can be included with @failed_rcpts, @msg_headers and @msg_body,
450 these must be at the beginning of a line and will be replaced with the list of the failed recipients,
451 the message headers and the message body of the failed message.
453 Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl.
455 .TP
456 \fBwarnmsg_file = \fIfile\fR
458 Set this to a template which will be used to generate delivery warning reports.
459 It uses the same mechanisms for variables as \fBerrmsg_file\fR, see above.
461 Default is /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/warnmsg.tpl.
463 .TP
464 \fBwarn_intervals\fR = \fIlist\fR
466 Set this to a list of time intervals, at which delivery warnings
467 (starting with the receiving time of the message) shall be generated.
469 A warning will only be generated just after an attempt to deliver the mail
470 and if that attempt failed temporarily.
471 So a warning may be generated after a longer time, if there was no attempt before.
473 Default is "1h;4h;8h;1d;2d;3d"
475 .TP
476 \fBmax_defer_time\fR = \fItime\fR
478 This is the maximum time, in which a temporarily failed mail will be kept in the spool.
479 When this time is exceeded, it will be handled as a delivery failure,
480 and the message will be bounced.
482 The excedence of this time will only be noticed if the message was actually tried to be delivered.
483 If, for example, the message can only be delivered when online,
484 but you have not been online for that time, no bounce will be generated.
486 Default is 4d (4 days)
488 .TP
489 \fBlog_user = \fIname\fR
491 Replace \fIname\fR with a valid local or remote mail address.
493 If this option is set, then a copy of every mail,
494 that passes through the masqmail system will also be sent to the given mail address.
496 For example you can feed your mails into a program like hypermail
497 for archiving purpose by placing an appropriate pipe command in masqmail.alias
499 .TP
500 \fBmax_msg_size\fR = \fIbytes\fR
502 This option sets the maximum size in bytes masqmail will accept for delivery.
503 This value is advertised to the SMTP client by the `SIZE' message during SMTP
504 session setup.
505 Clients pretending to send, or actually send,
506 more than \fIbytes\fR will get a 552 error message.
508 `0' means no fixed maximum size limit is in force.
510 Default is 0 (= unlimited).
512 .TP
513 \fBdefer_all\fR = \fIboolean\fR
515 If set to true, masqmail replies with ``421 service temporarily unavailable''
516 to any SMTP request and shuts the connection down.
517 Note: This option is for debugging purposes only.
519 Default: false
522 .SH AUTHOR
524 Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth.
525 It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>.
527 You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR.
528 There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site.
531 .SH BUGS
533 Please report bugs to the mailing list.
536 .SH SEE ALSO
538 \fBmasqmail(8)\fR, \fBmasqmail.route(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail.get(5)\fR