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manual formating of Received: hdrs; changed hdr for local receival Now the Received: headers are much friendlier to read. About folding: We must fold any line at 998 chars before transfer. We should fold the lines we produce at 78 chars. That is what RFC 2821 requests. We should think about it, somewhen. The header for locally (i.e. non-SMTP) received mail is changed to the format postfix uses. This matches RFC 2821 better. The `from' clause should contain a domain or IP, not a user name. Also, the `with' clause should contain a registered standard protocol name, which ``local'' is not.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:28:11 -0300
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1 Simple Setup
2 ============
3
4 You want
5 --------
6
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/*
10
11 You have luck, because this is what masqmail does by default.
12
13
14 Set up
15 ------
16
17 Follow the description in INSTALL.
18
19 A common configure call would be:
20
21 ./configure --enable-auth --enable-ident
22
23
24 Configuration
25 -------------
26
27 You just need a minimal config file, having one line:
28
29 host_name = "foo.example.org"
30
31 (Substitute a real value, of course.)
32
33
34 Starting the daemon
35 -------------------
36
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.
42
43 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q10m
44
45 This starts masqmail in daemon mode and does a queue run every ten
46 minutes.
47
48
49 Check the setup
50 ---------------
51
52 Ensure you have the sendmail links correct:
53
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*
57
58 Send a mail to yourself:
59
60 $ echo "some text" | mail `whoami`
61
62 Check if the mail was delivered (then delete it and quit):
63
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
75
76 some text
77
78 & d
79 & q
80
81
82 In case of problems
83 -------------------
84
85 Have a look at the log file: /var/log/masqmail/masqmail.log
86
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
89
90 Ask on the mailing list: <masqmail@marmaro.de>
91
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94 meillo