meillo@56: <HTML> meillo@56: <HEAD> meillo@56: <TITLE>MasqMail - Manual meillo@56: </TITLE> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: <BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> meillo@56: meillo@56: <center> meillo@56: <table width="80%"> meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <table width="100%" bgcolor="#0000aa" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> meillo@56: <tr> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="manual.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/u_arrow.gif" alt = "manual"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: <td align=center width="100%"><font size="6" color = "#ffffff">Frequently Asked Questions</font></td> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="./config.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/l_arrow.gif" alt = "Configuration"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: </tr> meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: Some of these questions were never asked, but I thought they will be meillo@56: some time. Some <em>were</em> asked. meillo@56: meillo@56: <h4>General Questions</h4> meillo@56: <ul> meillo@56: <li><a href="#1_0">1.0: When do I need MasqMail?</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#1_1">1.1: When do I <em>not</em> need MasqMail?</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#1_2">1.2: Can I retrieve mail with MasqMail?</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#1_3">1.3: Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?</a></li> meillo@56: </ul> meillo@56: meillo@56: <h4>Setup</h4> meillo@56: <ul> meillo@56: <li><a href="#2_0">2.0: After starting masmail, I get the following meillo@56: message: "could not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#2_1">2.1: After starting masmail, I get the following meillo@56: message: "bind: (terminating): Address already in use"</a></li> meillo@56: </ul> meillo@56: meillo@56: <h4>Header Rewriting</h4> meillo@56: <ul> meillo@56: <li><a href="#3_0">3.0: My friends told me that they do not see my meillo@56: full name in their inbox, although it is configured in my mail meillo@56: client.</a></li> meillo@56: </ul> meillo@56: meillo@56: <h4>Delivering Online</h4> meillo@56: <ul> meillo@56: <li><a href="#4_0">4.0: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the following message in the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: Permission denied".</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#4_1">4.1: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the following message in the log file: "route with name <em>name</em> not found.".</a></li> meillo@56: </ul> meillo@56: meillo@56: <h4>Bugs</h4> meillo@56: <ul> meillo@56: <li><a href="#5_0">5.0: I found a bug.</a></li> meillo@56: <li><a href="#5_1">5.1: I think I found a bug, but I am not sure whether I configured MasqMail incorrectly.</a></li> meillo@56: </ul> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="1_0"> <h4>1.0: When do I need MasqMail?</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p> You do not <em>need</em> it. But it makes sending mails via a meillo@56: dialup connection a lot easier.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>It is useful if you dial to the internet from time to time via a meillo@56: modem and connect to different providers, each one with a different meillo@56: configuration. Other MTAs are not flexible enough if you have to send meillo@56: mails via different mail servers for each provider. With MasqMail you meillo@56: can configure a different one for each provider and even set your meillo@56: return addresses differently.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>It is also useful if you have a LAN with a gateway which is meillo@56: connected to the internet via a modem because you can rewrite your meillo@56: address depending on whether the recipients are <em>inside</em> or meillo@56: <em>outside</em> your LAN. So responses and delivery failures on your meillo@56: LAN will be sent to you without leaving it, while those outside will meillo@56: be delivered to your address outside. (But it does not yet send meillo@56: delivery failures itself yet.)</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>MasqMail is also often used on notebooks.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="1_1"><h4>1.1: When do I <em>not</em> need MasqMail?</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>The use of MasqMail is <em>strongly</em> discouraged if you have a meillo@56: permanent connection to the internet without a firewall. First because meillo@56: it does not have the ability to block relaying (it relays every mail) meillo@56: and second because there are no capabilities to protect against meillo@56: SPAM. You will not take advantages of its features anyway.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="1_2"><h4>1.2: Can I retrieve mail with MasqMail?</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Yes, for version >= 0.1.0 you can retrieve mail via the POP3 and meillo@56: APOP protocol from single drop mailboxes (in case you do not know meillo@56: about single/mutidrop, you probaby use single drop mailboxes).</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>You can also use fetchmail or other pop/imap clients to feed meillo@56: it.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="1_3"><h4>1.3: Is there a mailing list for MasqMail?</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Yes, there is! See <a href="http://www.innominate.org/mailman/listinfo/masqmail">here</a>.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="2_0"><h4>2.0: After starting masmail, I get the following meillo@56: message: "could not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?"</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Set the set-user-id-bit with chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="2_1"><h4>2.1: After starting masmail, I get the following meillo@56: message: "bind: (terminating): Address already in use"</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>This means that there is already a process listening on a port, meillo@56: usually 25. You either have another MTA running in background meillo@56: (sendmail, exim, etc...) or another instance of masqmail.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>It may also mean that the ports you configured MM to listen to meillo@56: (with 'listen_addresses') are on the same IP address, eg. you may have meillo@56: set your hostname to 127.0.0.1 and try to listen on localhost and your meillo@56: host name. In this case either set your hostname to another IP address meillo@56: or delete one of the conflicting entries.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="3_0"><h4>3.0: My friends told me that they do not see my full meillo@56: name in their inbox, although it is configured in my mail meillo@56: client.</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>You probably used the <b>map_h_from_addresses</b> feature in the meillo@56: route configuration and forgot to set your real name. The syntax meillo@56: is:</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <pre> meillo@56: map_h_from_addresses = "charlie:Charlie Miller <cmiller@foo.com>"; meillo@56: </pre> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Do not forget the <em>Charlie Miller</em>.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="4_0"><h4>4.0: With connection method <em>file</em>, I get the meillo@56: following message in the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: meillo@56: Permission denied".</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>In your ip-up script, you have to set read permission to the user meillo@56: masqmail runs as. After you write the file with the connection name, meillo@56: set read permission to all with chmod ugo+r <em>file</em>. meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="4_1"><h4>4.1: With connection methed <em>file</em>, I get the meillo@56: following message in the log file: "route with name <em>name</em> not meillo@56: found.".</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Check whether the name in the file is really identical to name you meillo@56: gave to the route configuration (case sensitive!). Maybe there is a meillo@56: linefeed after the name in the file. Write it with echo -n.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="5_0"><h4>5.0: I found a bug.</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Make sure you are using the newest version, in case of doubt search meillo@56: it in <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net">freshmeat</a>. If you do, tell meillo@56: <a href = "mailto:Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>">me</a>. See meillo@56: also the section <a href="index.html#bugs">bugs</a> on the <a meillo@56: href="index.html">main</a> page.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: <a name="5_1"><h4>5.1: I think I found a bug, but I am not sure meillo@56: whether I configured MasqMail incorrectly.</h4></a> meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>Don't care. Tell <a href = "mailto:Oliver Kurth meillo@56: <kurth@innominate.de>">me</a>. Or write to the <a meillo@56: href="http://www.innominate.org/mailman/listinfo/masqmail">mailing meillo@56: list</a>.</p> meillo@56: meillo@56: </td></tr> meillo@56: meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <p> meillo@56: <hr> meillo@56: <address><a href = "mailto:kurth@innominate.de">Oliver Kurth</a></address> meillo@56: Last modified: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000 meillo@56: <br> meillo@56: This page was created using <a href="http://www.freddyfrog.com/hacks/genpage/">Genpage</a> - Version: 1.0.6 meillo@56: </p> meillo@56: meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: </center> meillo@56: meillo@56: </BODY> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: