meillo@215: Frequently Asked Questions meillo@215: ========================== meillo@215: meillo@215: Some of these questions were never asked, but I thought they will meillo@215: be some time. Some were asked. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: When do I need MasqMail? meillo@215: ------------------------ meillo@215: You do not *need* it. But it makes sending mails via a dialup meillo@215: connection a lot easier. meillo@215: meillo@215: It is useful if you dial to the internet from time to time via a meillo@215: modem and connect to different providers, each one with a meillo@215: different configuration. Other MTAs are not flexible enough if you meillo@215: have to send mails via different mail servers for each provider. meillo@215: With MasqMail you can configure a different one for each provider meillo@215: and even set your return addresses differently. meillo@215: meillo@215: It is also useful if you have a LAN with a gateway which is meillo@215: connected to the internet via a modem because you can rewrite your meillo@215: address depending on whether the recipients are *inside* or meillo@215: *outside* your LAN. So responses and delivery failures on your LAN meillo@215: will be sent to you without leaving it, while those outside will meillo@215: be delivered to your address outside. (But it does not yet send meillo@215: delivery failures itself yet.) meillo@215: meillo@215: MasqMail is also often used on notebooks. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: When do I not need MasqMail? meillo@215: ---------------------------- meillo@215: The use of MasqMail is *strongly* discouraged if you have a meillo@215: permanent connection to the internet without a firewall. First meillo@215: because it does not have the ability to block relaying (it relays meillo@215: every mail) and second because there are no capabilities to meillo@215: protect against SPAM. You will not take advantages of its features meillo@215: anyway. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: Is there a mailing list for MasqMail? meillo@215: ------------------------------------- meillo@215: Yes, there is! See here. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: After starting masmail, I get the following message: "could meillo@215: not gain root privileges. Is the setuid bit set?" meillo@215: ----------------------------------------------------------- meillo@215: Set the set-user-id-bit with chmod u+s /usr/sbin/masqmail. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: After starting masmail, I get the following message: "bind: meillo@215: (terminating): Address already in use" meillo@215: ----------------------------------------------------------- meillo@215: This means that there is already a process listening on a port, meillo@215: usually 25. You either have another MTA running in background meillo@215: (sendmail, exim, etc...) or another instance of masqmail. meillo@215: meillo@215: It may also mean that the ports you configured MM to listen to meillo@215: (with 'listen_addresses') are on the same IP address, eg. you may meillo@215: have set your hostname to 127.0.0.1 and try to listen on localhost meillo@215: and your host name. In this case either set your hostname to meillo@215: another IP address or delete one of the conflicting entries. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: My friends told me that they do not see my full name in their meillo@215: inbox, although it is configured in my mail client. meillo@215: ------------------------------------------------------------- meillo@215: You probably used the map_h_from_addresses feature in the route meillo@215: configuration and forgot to set your real name. The syntax is: meillo@215: meillo@215: map_h_from_addresses = "charlie:Charlie Miller "; meillo@215: meillo@215: Do not forget the Charlie Miller. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: With connection method file, I get the following message in meillo@215: the log file: "Could not open /tmp/connect_route: Permission meillo@215: denied". meillo@215: ------------------------------------------------------------ meillo@215: In your ip-up script, you have to set read permission to the user meillo@215: masqmail runs as. After you write the file with the connection meillo@215: name, set read permission to all with chmod ugo+r file. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: With connection method file, I get the following message in meillo@215: the log file: "route with name name not found.". meillo@215: ----------------------------------------------------------- meillo@215: Check whether the name in the file is really identical to name you meillo@215: gave to the route configuration (case sensitive!). meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: I found a bug. meillo@215: -------------- meillo@215: Make sure you are using the newest version, in case of doubt meillo@215: search it in freshmeat. If you do, tell me. See also the section meillo@215: bugs on the main page. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: I think I found a bug, but I am not sure whether I configured meillo@215: MasqMail incorrectly. meillo@215: ------------------------------------------------------------- meillo@215: Don't care. Tell me. Or write to the mailing list. meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: meillo@215: Written by Oliver Kurth meillo@215: Last modified by him: Tue May 30 15:19:56 CEST 2000