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−Frequently Asked Questions
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−Some of these questions were never asked, but I thought they will
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−be some time. Some were asked.
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−When do I need MasqMail?
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−You do not *need* it. But it makes sending mails via a dialup
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−connection a lot easier.
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−It is useful if you dial to the internet from time to time via a
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−modem and connect to different providers, each one with a
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−different configuration. Other MTAs are not flexible enough if you
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−have to send mails via different mail servers for each provider.
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−With MasqMail you can configure a different one for each provider
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−and even set your return addresses differently.
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−It is also useful if you have a LAN with a gateway which is
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−connected to the internet via a modem because you can rewrite your
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−address depending on whether the recipients are *inside* or
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−*outside* your LAN. So responses and delivery failures on your LAN
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−will be sent to you without leaving it, while those outside will
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−be delivered to your address outside. (But it does not yet send
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−delivery failures itself yet.)
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−MasqMail is also often used on notebooks.
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−When do I not need MasqMail?
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−The use of MasqMail is *strongly* discouraged if you have a
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−permanent connection to the internet without a firewall. First
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−because it does not have the ability to block relaying (it relays
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−every mail) and second because there are no capabilities to
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−protect against SPAM. You will not take advantages of its features
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−anyway.
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−Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?
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−Yes, there is! See here.
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−After starting masmail, I get the following message: "could
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−not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"
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−Set the set-user-id-bit with chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail.
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−After starting masmail, I get the following message: "bind:
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−(terminating): Address already in use"
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−This means that there is already a process listening on a port,
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−usually 25. You either have another MTA running in background
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−(sendmail, exim, etc...) or another instance of masqmail.
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−It may also mean that the ports you configured MM to listen to
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−(with 'listen_addresses') are on the same IP address, eg. you may
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−have set your hostname to 127.0.0.1 and try to listen on localhost
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−and your host name. In this case either set your hostname to
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−another IP address or delete one of the conflicting entries.
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−My friends told me that they do not see my full name in their
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−inbox, although it is configured in my mail client.
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−You probably used the map_h_from_addresses feature in the route
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−configuration and forgot to set your real name. The syntax is:
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−map_h_from_addresses = "charlie:Charlie Miller <cmiller@foo.com>";
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−Do not forget the Charlie Miller.
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−With connection method file, I get the following message in
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−the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: Permission
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−denied".
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−In your ip-up script, you have to set read permission to the user
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−masqmail runs as. After you write the file with the connection
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−name, set read permission to all with chmod ugo+r file.
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−With connection method file, I get the following message in
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−the log file: "route with name name not found.".
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−Check whether the name in the file is really identical to name you
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−gave to the route configuration (case sensitive!).
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−I found a bug.
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−Make sure you are using the newest version, in case of doubt
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−search it in freshmeat. If you do, tell me. See also the section
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−bugs on the main page.
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−I think I found a bug, but I am not sure whether I configured
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−MasqMail incorrectly.
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−Don't care. Tell me. Or write to the mailing list.
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−Written by Oliver Kurth
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−Last modified by him: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000