AXMAIL.CONF(5)

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💌 AXMAIL.CONF(5) 💌

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for axmail.conf — that's the config file for axMail-FAX, and we're doing this in the Linux System Managers Manual section 5 energy. grab a snack, this is gonna be cute and also extremely practical. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

axMail — a powerful but simple SMTP plugin for URONode. no cap, that's literally what it is. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

axmail.conf

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so axmail.conf is the file that configures how axMail-FAX does its thing. it's giving main character config file energy.

one thing you gotta do, and I mean gotta: make sure you add the proper group using addgroup. the one everybody uses is "ax25". periodt. 💅

👑 COMMANDS 👑

here's every single option that axmail.conf supports, and yes we're going through all of them because you deserve the full picture:

  • IdleTimeout — this should not be longer than the same command over in uronode.conf. that's the rule, don't fight it. ⏰
  • HostName — the fully qualified hostname of your mail system. typically this is an amprnet domain, like n1uro.ampr.org. 🏠
  • AllowMail — this one controls who gets to use mail on your system. the default is all. everybody's invited, unless you say otherwise. 🎉
  • Identification — shows how users can authenticate into the application. the default is none, because the password used over RF may also be used for popping/imap if the local sysop chooses to do this. and then: Disconnect user from their mailbox. 🔐
  • AutoCreate — this allows creation of the user accounts. since you can also configure dovecot or a pop3 daemon and pop-before-smtp to allow mail on smartphones as well, this should be set to yes — which is the default. 📱
  • LoginAllowed — grants or denies permissions for other functions, like ssh on the box. this also controls access to imap/pop. default is yes. ✅
  • AutoGroup — I suggest using ax25. you'll have to set this using addgroup ax25. 🧚
  • First_uid — the first user id numeric to be used when axmail creates accounts. I suggest 2000, because this keeps mail clients 1000 UID away from actual local clients, so it'll somewhat separate them this way. 🔢
  • Last_uid — this sets just how many users may create and use mailboxes using axmail. 📬
  • HomeDir — sets the base of the users' home directory. I suggest using the standard home directory for all users. 🏡
  • Shell — the shell the users are granted. I suggest if you wish not to allow ssh or telnet access into your server, use /bin/false. 🐚
  • FaxGate — the efax gateway to send your faxes through to. the SFax command will preformat your mail to use this gateway. remove the quotes. 📠
lowkey important: that "Remove the quotes" note on FaxGate is not a joke, bestie, actually take them out. 🙈

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

  • /usr/local/etc/ax25/welcome.txt
    • greeting file for new users to welcome them to the mail system. so cute, so necessary. 💖
  • /etc/postfix/main.cf
    • postfix configuration file. the postfix of it all. 📮

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

  • Brian Rogers (N1URO) <n1uro@n1uro.com>

🦋 OTHERS 🦋

  • Marius Petrescu (YO2LOJ) <mpetrescu@online.ro>
  • Bob Tenty (VE3TOK) <ve3tok@gmail.com>
  • Heikki Hannikainen (OH7LZB) <hessu@hes.iki.fi>

and that's the whole page, bestie. this one's brought to you by Linux, dated 28 September 2015 — shoutout to the legends who wrote it and to you for reading all the way down here. go forth and configure your mail system, you absolute icon. 💜🫶✨

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