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ofmipd(8)		     System Manager's Manual		       ofmipd(8)

NAME
     ofmipd - accept outgoing mail through OFMIP

SYNOPSIS
     ofmipd [ name.cdb ]

DESCRIPTION
     ofmipd  accepts mail messages through the Old-Fashioned Mail Injection Pro-
     tocol (OFMIP), rewrites them according to local rules, and  invokes  qmail-
     queue  to	deposit  them  into the outgoing queue.  ofmipd must be supplied
     several environment variables; see tcp-environ(5).

     See  http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/ofmip.html  for  further	information   on
     OFMIP.

USING OFMIP
     You  can use tcpserver to set up ofmipd on a free TCP port.  Some sites use
     port 26.  Some sites use port 25 on an IP address that does not receive in-
     coming mail.

     Note that ofmipd will relay messages to any destination.  It should be  in-
     voked  only  for  connections from preauthorized users.  With tcpserver you
     can deny connections that do not come from preauthorized IP addresses  such
     as 127.0.0.1.

     Most  MUAs  that  claim  to be ``SMTP clients'' are actually OFMIP clients.
     You should point them at ofmipd rather than qmail-smtpd.	Some  MUAs  will
     use  port	26  of	server	if  you  tell  them  that the ``SMTP server'' is
     server:26.

MESSAGE REWRITING
     ofmipd rewrites each message in essentially the same  way	that  new-inject
     does.  It transforms each envelope address as discussed in rewriting(5); it
     cleans up address lists in To, Cc, Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To, From,
     Sender,  Reply-To,  Mail-Reply-To,  and  Mail-Followup-To; it adds Date and
     Message-ID; it discards Bcc,  Apparently-To,  Content-Length,  and  Return-
     Path; and it moves various fields to the top of the message.

     ofmipd  also  transforms envelope sender addresses and From lines according
     to name.cdb if name.cdb is supplied.  See ofmipname(8) for further details.

     ofmipd accepts LF and CR LF as line terminators inside messages.

     ofmipd does not do hop counting or local-IP-address recognition.

SEE ALSO
     new-inject(1), tcpserver(1),  addresses(5),  tcp-environ(5),  rewriting(5),
     qmail-control(5), qmail-queue(8), ofmipname(8)

								       ofmipd(8)

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