meillo@59: Additional information may be available in docs/ or on the website. meillo@174: For installing on GNU/Linux distributions read docs/INSTALL.linux. meillo@0: meillo@59: meillo@59: Installation instructions meillo@59: ------------------------- meillo@59: meillo@165: To compile masqmail you need glib (>= 1.2) (http://www.gtk.org). Your meillo@181: distribution probably provides it. Glib-2.0 works out of the box, for meillo@181: glib-1.2, you need to adjust configure.ac. See the comment in there. meillo@0: meillo@165: You need a user and a group for masqmail to run. If meillo@165: meillo@165: grep '^mail:' /etc/passwd meillo@358: grep '^mail:' /etc/group meillo@165: meillo@358: shows that the user `mail' and the group `mail' exist, it's probably meillo@358: best to use these. If they don't exist, create them: meillo@0: meillo@358: groupadd -g 12 mail meillo@358: useradd -u 8 -g mail -d /nonexistent -s /bin/false -c "masqmail MTA" mail meillo@0: meillo@358: The 8 and 12 are common uid/gid for the user and group `mail', but you can meillo@358: use any (not yet used) number you like, preferably one lower than 100. meillo@358: If you use other names than `mail' and `mail', you need to use the meillo@358: configure options described below. meillo@165: meillo@0: meillo@174: Compiling is a matter of the usual procedure. In the source directory, meillo@59: after unpacking do: meillo@0: meillo@59: ./configure meillo@59: make meillo@59: make install meillo@0: meillo@0: meillo@0: meillo@59: Additional options for configure meillo@59: -------------------------------- meillo@0: meillo@59: See the output of meillo@0: meillo@59: ./configure -h meillo@0: meillo@165: Here is a selection of the options with additional explanations: meillo@0: meillo@165: --with-user=USER meillo@165: sets the user as which masqmail will run. Default is 'mail'. USER has meillo@165: to exist before you 'make install'. meillo@0: meillo@165: --with-group=GROUP meillo@358: sets the group as which masqmail will run. Default is 'mail'. GROUP meillo@165: has to exist before you 'make install'. meillo@0: meillo@0: meillo@165: --with-logdir=LOGDIR meillo@165: sets the directory where masqmail stores its log files. It will be meillo@165: created if it does not exist. Default is /var/log/masqmail/. meillo@0: meillo@165: --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR meillo@165: sets the directory where masqmail stores its spool files. It will be meillo@165: created if it does not exist. Default is /var/spool/masqmail/. meillo@0: meillo@165: --with-confdir=CONFDIR meillo@165: sets the default configuration directory to CONFDIR, in case you meillo@165: prefer another location than /etc/masqmail/. meillo@0: meillo@0: meillo@165: --disable-resolver meillo@175: disables resolver support. Without the resolver functions, masqmail meillo@165: uses only gethostbyname() to resolve DNS names, and you cannot send meillo@165: mail without a smart host. Not recommended. meillo@0: meillo@364: --disable-auth meillo@364: disables ESMTP AUTH support (enabled by default) meillo@364: meillo@165: meillo@165: --disable-debug meillo@175: disables debugging; setting it on the command line or in the meillo@175: configuration has no effect. Strongly discouraged, since you miss meillo@175: valuable information if something goes wrong. meillo@0: meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@165: Checking the installation meillo@165: ------------------------- meillo@0: meillo@0: Check that 'make install' worked correctly. The following command: meillo@0: meillo@195: ls -ld /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /etc/masqmail /var/log/masqmail/ \ meillo@174: /var/run/masqmail /var/spool/masqmail/ /var/spool/masqmail/* meillo@0: meillo@0: should give output similar to meillo@0: meillo@165: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 399356 May 10 12:34 /usr/local/sbin/masqmail meillo@59: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 12:34 /etc/masqmail meillo@358: drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/log/masqmail meillo@358: drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/run/masqmail meillo@358: drwxr-xr-x 5 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail meillo@358: drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/input meillo@358: drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 May 10 12:34 /var/spool/masqmail/lock meillo@0: meillo@165: Important are the set-user-id bit for /usr/local/sbin/masqmail and meillo@165: the permissions of all files. meillo@0: meillo@0: meillo@59: meillo@165: Making masqmail the default meillo@165: --------------------------- meillo@0: meillo@165: `sendmail' is the de-facto standard name of the system's MTA, no meillo@165: matter which MTA actually runs. If you want to make masqmail the meillo@185: system's MTA (i.e. replace sendmail, postfix, etc), make two symbolic meillo@185: links: meillo@0: meillo@165: ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/lib/sendmail meillo@185: ln -s /usr/local/sbin/masqmail /usr/sbin/sendmail meillo@0: meillo@165: Now every mailer that used to call sendmail will now call masqmail. meillo@165: If you already had an MTA installed and running, you can kill it and meillo@165: start masqmail. Probably with: meillo@59: meillo@165: /etc/init.d/sendmail restart meillo@59: meillo@165: If this doesn't work as expected, you might need to add a special init meillo@165: script for masqmail. Currently none is distributed with masqmail. meillo@165: (Hopefully this will change soon.) Please ask on the mailing list for meillo@165: help. meillo@59: meillo@165: You can also directly start masqmail as daemon with: meillo@59: meillo@165: /usr/local/sbin/masqmail -bd -q30m meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@165: Basic Configuration meillo@165: ------------------- meillo@59: meillo@165: The only thing you must configure in order to use masqmail is the meillo@165: hostname. It's the name under which masqmail operates. In most cases meillo@165: it is the same as the machine's name, but it can be different. meillo@59: meillo@227: The script `admin/guess-hostname' tries to print the hostname of meillo@165: your machine. The first output line is probably the best choice. meillo@59: meillo@165: Create a minimal config with: meillo@59: meillo@165: echo "host_name = HOSTNAME" >/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf meillo@59: meillo@165: (Substitute `HOSTNAME' with the real value, of course.) meillo@59: meillo@165: Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does: meillo@165: - deliver mail locally meillo@206: - accept mail on stdin (plain text) meillo@206: - accept mail on stdin (SMTP) (if started with -bs) meillo@206: - accept mail on the local port 25 (SMTP) (if started with -bd) meillo@185: meillo@165: It does not meillo@185: - transfer mail to other machines meillo@165: - accept mail from outside your machine meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@165: For more elaborate setups, have a look at docs/*setup and meillo@165: docs/INSTALL*. You can also take the example configuration files in meillo@165: examples/ as basis for your own. Take the man pages masqmail.conf(5) meillo@165: and masqmail.route(5) for reference. meillo@92: meillo@165: All configuration files should go into /etc/masqmail. meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@59: meillo@59: Written by oku. meillo@165: Improved by meillo.