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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
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@@ -35,21 +35,22 @@ FIXME what else
SETUP
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-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
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-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.