Mercurial > masqmail
changeset 92:10d00e3235f2
updated docs (online_file, mserver_iface)
- the default location of the online_file is /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route
- the online file can and should (!) end with a newline
(this once was different)
- marked the online detect method `mserver' as obsolete
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:04:36 +0200 (2010-06-21) |
| parents | 3e7136221104 |
| children | b3673777f52a |
| files | INSTALL man/masqmail.conf.5 |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Mon Jun 21 09:40:16 2010 +0200 +++ b/INSTALL Mon Jun 21 10:04:36 2010 +0200 @@ -178,15 +178,19 @@ possibilities: * if you are using the masqdialer system, you just have to set the - variables online_detect to mserver and mserver_iface to the interface - mserver is listening to. + variables online_detect to pipe and online_pipe to something like + /usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222 + if mserver is running on localhost and listens on port 222. See the + man page to mservdetect(1). + * otherwise you have to add two commands in your ip-up script: - echo -n $6 > /tmp/connect_route - chmod 644 /tmp/connect_route - and you have to remove the file /tmp/connect_route in your ip-down script: - rm /tmp/connect_route. + echo "$6" >/var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route + chmod 644 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route + and you have to remove the file /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route in + your ip-down script: + rm /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route Then you have to set online_detect to file and online_file to - /tmp/connect_route. + /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route See the route documentation for more.
--- a/man/masqmail.conf.5 Mon Jun 21 09:40:16 2010 +0200 +++ b/man/masqmail.conf.5 Mon Jun 21 10:04:36 2010 +0200 @@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ When it is set to \fBmserver\fR, masqmail connects to the masqdialer server using the value of \fBmserver_iface\fR and asks it whether a connection exists and for the name, which should be the name of the current connection as defined with \fBconnect_route.\fIname\fR. +\fBThe mserver detection method is OBSOLETE.\fR +See mserver_iface for a note on how to replace it. No matter how masqmail detects the online status, only messages that are accepted at online time will be delivered using the connection. @@ -361,7 +363,7 @@ The file should only exist when there is currently a connection. Create it in your ip-up script with e.g. -echo \-n <name> > /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route +echo "connection-name" >/var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route chmod 0644 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route @@ -390,6 +392,14 @@ .TP \fBmserver_iface = \fIinterface\fR +\fBThis option is OBSOLETE\fP, use + +online_method=pipe + +online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222" + +instead. + The interface the masqdialer server is listening to. Usually this will be "localhost:224" if mserver is running on the same host as masqmail. But using this option, you can also let masqmail run on another host by setting