SYNOPSIS

       ofmipd [ name.cdb ]

DESCRIPTION

       ofmipd accepts mail messages through the Old-Fashioned Mail Injection
       Protocol (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 incoming mail.

       Note that ofmipd will relay messages to any destination.  It should be
       invoked 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)



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