mservdetect(1)

📦 version 0.3.4, in ubuntu jammy

💖 MSERVDETECT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for mservdetect, section 1 of the manual, and it's literally a tiny little helper for masqmail. she's small but she's important, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mservdetect — a little helper for masqmail when it's vibing with masqdialer 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/usr/bin/mservdetect host port

that's it. two args. she's low maintenance, she's iconic. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕: mservdetect is a small helper application for masqmail, and her whole job is to figure out whether you're online by asking the modem server masqdialer.

the way she does it: she connects to host at port, speaking the masqdialer protocol the whole time like the fluent queen she is, and finally — bestie, this is the moment — she prints the active connection name, if any, to stdout. that's right, if any. sometimes there's just nothing to report and she says nothing. mysterious. 💀

and if you actually wanna use her? you gotta set this in masqmail.conf:

online_query="/usr/bin/mservdetect host port"

no cap, that's the whole config. put it in, and you're slaying. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • host — the hostname where the masqdialer server is running. like, where does she live. that's this. 🏠
  • port — the port number where the masqdialer server is listening. she's gotta know which door to knock on, obviously. 🚪

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth. it's now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>. two icons, one legacy. 🫶

you'll find the newest version of masqmail at http://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/. there's also a mailing list — you'll find info about it at masqmail's main site. go lurk, go say hi. 💌

😭 BUGS 😭

please report bugs to the mailing list. that's it, that's the whole ask. don't suffer in silence, bestie, tell the group chat. 📮

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

masqmail(8), masqmail.conf(5)

and that's the page!! this was masqmail version masqmail-0.3.4, dated 2012-01-18 — a vintage classic, fr fr, and honestly? she ate. 💅✨🦋

bye bestie, go detect some servers 💖🌸🎀

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