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@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ Echolot is a Pinger for anonymous remailers. -A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that regularily -sends messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then -calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer clients to -choose the chain of remailers to use. +A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that +regularily sends messages through remailers to check their reliability. +It then calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer +clients to choose the chain of remailers to use. -Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all remailers -and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients. +Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all +remailers and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients. -This is echolot2. Besides the name, author and purpose this has nothing to do -with echolot1. It's written from scratch. +This is echolot2. Besides the name, author and purpose this has nothing +to do with echolot1. It's written from scratch. LICENSE ------- @@ -35,21 +35,22 @@ FIXME what else SETUP ----- -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 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 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 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. + 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. @@ -57,9 +58,10 @@ o Make sure your MTA supports user defined mailboxes. so that 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. +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: @@ -75,11 +77,11 @@ 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 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. +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 @@ -93,9 +95,9 @@ o You can tail the output file to get the debugging 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. +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. |