Topic: qmail-masq on SME Server 6.0.1-01 ?

[jimro]

Hi all,
I am newbie on SME Server (and Linux too).  I have tried without success to install qmail-masq on SME Server 6.0.1-01 for several weeks.  In spite of many research on Internet, I did not find a solution.  Does somebody know qmail-masq?  Is it possible to install it easily on SME Server 6.0.1-01?

What I found about it :
http://www.folug.org/sviluppo/qmail-masq/qmail-masq.html

Thanks for any help

[RavenIV]

as you can see at the release date, the last release is a bit old (27/03/03).
maybe the code is not compatible with SME 6.x,

another question:
did you istall the qmail-qfilter patch? it is needed by qmail-masq.

and did you contact the author of qmail-masq?
his email is in the upper right vorner of the site (encoded).

cheers

[jimro]

Yes, unfortunately, I saw that the last version of qmail-masq is a little old.
Qmail-qfilter seems to be installed, because one finds qmail-qfilter in /usr/bin /, but I did not install it myself.
Perhaps qmailqueue-patch should be also installed.  But I don't know how to make and if it is necessary.
At http://mirrors.clubic.com/qmail/top.html, we can find :

Bruce Guenter has written a patch which causes any program that would run qmail-queue to look for an environment variable QMAILQUEUE. If it is present, it is used in place of the string "bin/qmail-queue" when running qmail-queue. This could be used, for example, to add a program into the qmail-smtpd->qmail-queue pipeline that could do filtering, rewrite broken headers, etc.

Indeed, I am going to try to contact the author ;  I did not do it, because the project seems to be abandoned since 2003.

[mdo]

Are you sure you need to go that way? I don't believe it's easy to integrate/patch (?) it with SME server.
Maybe the usage of virtual domains (easy) might help?
What exactly do you want to achieve?
Regards,
Michael

[jimro]

Hello,

I have contacted qmail-masq author: he confirms that there was no evolution of the program since March 2003. He doesn't know SME Server, and returns me towards the documents which I already announced in my first posts, and this one too: http://untroubled.org/qmail-qfilter/ .


Virtual domains, aliases: all that was studied and tested, without success. In my case, the only and last solution seems to be qmail-masq.

I search a solution since the beginning of October 2004. Then I posted on http://forums.ixus.net/viewtopic.php?t=22416 , a french web site (about secured linux distributions).

Thus I recapitule:

1) for a local recipient: from user1 AT mydomain.local to user2 AT mydomain.local (declared domain on SME Server), no problem;

2) to recover the mails of a local user: no problem with smeserver-fetchmail;

3) for a recipient external to my LAN: SME must find the way to send the mail, by adding the following line to smtproutes, it's OK:
intranet.general:its IP address or its host name
user1 finds user3 AT intranet.general, user3 being external to my LAN

4) the external recipient must be able to answer the local sender:  test qmail-masq

In the solutions that it remains, I need make compilation of either qmail to integrate qmailqueue-patch, or qmail-qfilter, this second possibility being perhaps easier. However, I have never compiled. Then before launching me in the adventure, I would like to know if somebody already tried the experiment: to install successfully qmail-masq on SME Server 6.0.1-01.

Thanks for your attention

[jimro]

Hello,

Sorry, but I perhaps didn't understand well what you told me.  About which virtual domains do you talk?  Those of SME Server or those of qmail?  Because I did not test this second possibility.

Maybe the usage of virtual domains (easy) might help?

Thanks for any help