From: Juergen Daubert <juergen.daubert@t-online.de>
  To  : <masqmail@marmaro.de>
  Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:20:36 +0200

Re: [masqmail] What masqmail intends to be

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:26:39PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
> [2010-07-16 12:43] Juergen Daubert <juergen.daubert@t-online.de>
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:05:02AM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:

[...]

> > I guess masqmail has never
> > delivered direct to the recipient of a mail outside the local network. 
> 
> I'm not sure what you want to say with this sentence. If you meant the
> possibility to do so, you are wrong. See masqmail.route(5):

Sorry, was not clear here. Sure, masqmail can deliver directly but I
guess that most/all masqmail users are sending from a host which
is not resolvable via DNS and therefore any properly configured SMTP
server will reject their mails. So in practice masqmail delivers most
of its external mail to the mailhub of a provider.

[...]

> 
> > > Local delivery will be available by default with 0.3.0. Masqmail will
> > > listen on `localhost:25' by default. This would collide with the
> > > --disable-smtp-server option.
> > 
> > Oops, what do you mean with by default? It listen to localhost:25 even
> > if not configured to do so in masqmail.conf with listen_addresses?
> 
> Yes. I'll introduce this with 0.3.0 (if there isn't one who convinces
> me to not do so). The reason is that there are MUAs that submit mail
> only via SMTP to localhost:25. Pine seems to be an example for that.
> Probably Thunderbird too, if it should use the local MTA. By doing
> this change, we have a convenient basic setup that only requires to
> set host_name in masqmail.conf. This is appealing IMO.

Hmm, no no no ;) What if I want a setup where masqmail is listening 
only on e.g. 192.168.0.1 but not on 127.0.0.1? 

Every useful MUA or mail retriever has a option to configure the SMTP 
server it is using, it's smtpserver for alpine, smtphost for fetchmail 
and smtp_url for mutt, for all of them you can specify an alternative 
port as well.


regards
Juergen

-- 
Juergen Daubert  |  mailto:jue@jue.li  
Korb, Germany    |  http://jue.li/crux