pymsgauth

A toolkit for automatically and securely dealing with qsecretary confirmation notices

Using pymsgauth

Installing pymsgauth

• Download the latest version of pymsgauth
• Unpack the tarball
• Create and populate the directories

  mkdir -m 755 /usr/lib/pymsgauth and /usr/doc/pymsgauth
  install -m 755 pymsgauth.py ConfParser.py pymsgauth-mail pymsgauth-confirm pymsgauth-clean /usr/lib/pymsgauth
  install -m 644 pymsgauth.html pymsgauth.txt pymsgauthrc-example CHANGELOG BUGS COPYING /usr/doc/pymsgauth
  			

• Symlink the commands into /usr/bin

  cd /usr/bin
  ln -s ../lib/pymsgauth/pymsgauth-* ./
  			

Configuring pymsgauth

• Create a local configuration/data directory. The default is ~/.pymsgauth, but can be overridden in the environment variable PYMSGAUTH_DIR.

  mkdir m 700 ~/.pymsgauth
  			

• Create a configuration file pymsgauthrc in the above directory. Examine the provided pymsgauthrc-example file for details.

Configuring qmail delivery

• Configure qmail to process messages from qsecretary-protected mailing lists. For instance, if mail from the qmail mailing list is controlled by ~/.qmail-list, edit that file. Include a delivery to the pymsgauth-confirm command before your Maildir or mbox delivery line, as follows:

  |/usr/bin/pymsgauth-confirm
  ./Mail/list/
  			

Configuring MUAs

• Configure your MUA to use pymsgauth-mail as its sendmail interface. In mutt, this means setting sendmail to the path to pymsgauth-mail in your .muttrc file.