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author | Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> | 2002-07-03 01:15:07 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> | 2002-07-03 01:15:07 +0000 |
commit | e78e399b29f9b9e9c3b363f8e4902ebbb90104d0 (patch) | |
tree | 81b4ddf1af4813e8634e0fb5f3b600c4912d425b /README | |
parent | 7f73e95538c838609783e28a70bdeff9ac768790 (diff) |
setup docs
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@@ -20,16 +20,85 @@ Please see the file named "LICENSE". REQUIREMENTS ------------ in general: + XML::Parser + XML::Dumper Digest::MD5 + Mail::Internet for type1 pings GnuPG (1.0.7) GnuPG::Interface (0.33) for type2 pings - a mixmaster installation - this requirement will be changed + a mixmaster installation FIXME what else SETUP ----- -FIXME + +o Create a new unix user named �pinger� (You can actually use any name you wish + but I will refer to the user as pinger in this document). + +o Make sure you have the perl libraries mentioned above and GnuPG installed + properly. + +o Create a mixmaster client installation in ~pinger/Mix + echolot needs to have its own installation because it will mess with mix' + mlist.txt file, the public mixmaster keyring, and type2.list. + Don't bother putting current keyrings there. + +o Check the homedir setting pingd.conf + +o Set my_localpart and my_domain in pingd.conf to the appropriate values + for your pinger. Mail to my_localpart@my_domain needs to reach echolot. + +o Make sure your MTA supports user defined mailboxes. so that + my_localpart+anything@my_domain also reaches echolot. + ^^^^^^^^^ + If you use another character instead or + to indicate a user defined + extension set recipient_delimiter accordingly in pingd.conf. + +o Mail should be delivered to /home/pinger/mail which must be a Maildir mailbox, i.e + there are 3 directories: /home/pinger/mail/tmp, /home/pinger/mail/cur and + /home/pinger/mail/new. Qmail, postfix and procmail can do this. + + Example snipped for procmail: + + :0 + $HOME/mail/ + + (the trailing slash is important!) + + +o run �./pingd --verbose� start + +o run �./pingd add <address> <address> <address>..� in another terminal + look at the first terminal where you started pingd. It should print + something about adding addresses. + +o run �./pingd getkeyconfs� to request new remailer-key and remailer-conf + immediatly. + +o pingd can be stopped with + �./pingd stop� or with Ctrl+C on the terminal where it runs. + +When everything works you may start pingd with + +o �./pingd --detach --verbose start� + +o You can tail the output file to get the debugging output: + �tail -f output� + + + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +Run �./pingd dumpconf� to see a list of all available configuration options. +You may add them to the pingd.conf file. After changing that file you need to +restart pingd. + + + +Please report bugs and feature requests to Peter Palfrader +<peter@palfrader.org>. |