# HG changeset patch
# User meillo@marmaro.de
# Date 1279541414 -7200
# Node ID 08b32edca1d5f72f362db4b15ce5587d0a797c29
# Parent  ecd8d737d78e619a606fbf500759ddd83e7cd46c
added the contents of the old FAQ page
it surely needs an update

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