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| Fritz Wuehler |
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This is an attempt to tell newbies how to get started using
Mixmaster under Linux so that they can use the remailer system.
I wanted to put this together because documentation understandable
by the average user seems to be lacking.
I hope to provide enough information to get people to the point of
sending simple messages through the remailers.
Please chime in with corrections, additions, etc.
Any examples of command line usage would be most welcome.
I assume you have some version of linux installed and know how to
use the package manager to add programs.
You will need to install:
Mixmaster
Postfix [SEE (1) IN THE NOTES SECTION]
To make things as 'gui' as possible, I strongly recommend you also
install:
Ncurses
webmin for postfix
Mixmaster
I think I took the defaults for this and didn't have a problem.
I think it asks you if you want to install ncurses while you are
at it. Say yes, since ncurses will give you a simple gui when
you want to send a message.
Postfix
This is a mail server which Mixmaster will automatically use for
smtp purposes. Take the defaults when setting this up. The one
exception is when it asks for the internet hostname of the mail
system. Use a fully-qualified domain name. You can get one from
places like dyndns.org or yi.org, which point to your ip.
Webmin for Postfix
This provides a gui for configuring Postfix. The only thing I
had to do was get into general options and change the internet
hostname of the mail system to a fully-qualified name, because
I had taken the non-fully-qualified default when setting up
postfix.
By the way, it isn't obvious how to get into Webmin, so here is
how: open your browser and type localhost:10000. It will ask you
for the root id and password, and will probably re-direct you
to another local url. Remember the new url and use it the next time.
One more thing about Postfix. It is apparently a simplified
version of Sendmail, which is what mixmaster *really* requires;
but it has been jiggered so that mixmaster thinks it is sendmail.
I tried installing sendmail, but got loads of messages about
things being screwed up. Stick with Postfix.
TO RUN MIXMASTER USING THE COMMAND LINE
Here are a couple of command line examples. Since you can do a lot
more with the command line than the elementary gui, it's
probably worth while learning this.
You should change these to fit your wishes and copy and paste
them into a terminal session (Linux has sophisticated scripting,
but I don't know how to use it. If you do, let us know - as long
as your explanation is simple, clear, and sufficient).
The easiest way to send a message using the command line is to
create the message in a file and then specify the file in the
command line. This allows you to put any headers you want in the
message.
Here is an example of sending a mixmaster message to usenet. It
has a subject and a 'from' header (in the file containing the
body of the message). If you want the 'from' header to show up,
you need to use, as the last remailer, one that supports that.
Hastio, Frell, Thrasher and Eelbash are several that do.
For easier understanding, the parameters are displayed vertically,
with a comment.
mixmaster
-c 1 send 1 copy of the msg
-p send it to usenet - the headers: Newsgroups:,
From:, etc. will be in the file.
-l thrasher use this remailer
<tmp/info.txt the file containing the message
Here it is, spread out:
mixmaster -c 1 -p -l thrasher <tmp/info.txt
N.B. after you run this command, type in: mixmaster -S
That will send the message from the pool. If you don't type in:
mixmaster -S, the message will not be sent.
Here is what the file, info.txt, might look like. Note the
skipped line after the last header. That is essential.
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: some test subject
From: joe blow <joeblow@somewhere.com>
start of message
second line of message
Here's a variation of the above, using 4 copies and 4 remailers.
mixmaster mixmaster -c 4 -p -l *,*,*,thrasher <tmp/info.txt
TO RUN MIXMASTER USING THE NCURSES GUI
Open a terminal screen and type: mixmaster (if that doesn't work,
type Mixmaster. This is Linux.)
That will bring up the simple gui screen.
Enter m or p for mail or post to usenet.
Enter the email address(es) or newsgroup(s) you want to send to.
Enter the Subject
That will bring up another screen with the defaults for remailers,
and for copies of the message. It should quickly become clear how
to manage those two.
One thing to keep in mind is that you need to specify at least one
random remailer (by using an asterisk) if you are sending more
than one copy of the message.
If you have the message in a file, enter f then the name of the file.
If you want to type in the message, or edit the existing file,
enter e and you will be put into a terrible editor called vi.
SEE (2) IN THE NOTES SECTION, for how to switch to a better editor.
If you can't switch, then read on.
If you are stuck with vi, type in your message.
Now get a load of this: to save and get out of the message,
you have to:
1. Press the 'insert' key
2. enter a colon followed by wq
Amazing, but that's how vi works, and doing that will get you back
to the previous gui.
Enter m to send the message to the spool file.
That brings up another gui screen. At this point you will probably
want to enter s to send the message from the spool, and
then q to quit mixmaster.
If you have postfix properly installed, the message should be on
its way, nicely encrypted.
You will need regularly to update your stats, so SEE (3) IN THE
NOTES SECTION.
You now know everything I do about running mixmaster. That's not
much, but at least you can encrypt mail and usenet posts.
Maybe somebody could also provide us with some more command line
examples, so that we have a better idea of how to use the command
line with mixmaster. It would make learning mixmaster a lot
easier if we had examples to play around with, rather than
coding the command line statements from scratch.
The gui is so elementary, that it looks like command line is the
way to go, once you have familiarized yourself with the utility.
********* NOTES ***************
(1) SHOULD YOU USE POSTFIX TO SEND MAIL FROM MIXMASTER?
You can make a few changes in one of the config files and use your
isp's smtp server.
I actually prefer postfix because it set up and ran without a
hitch.
However, if you have a problem with it, or prefer to use the
kind of smtp you are used to, read on.
Basically you put these in your mix.cfg file and comment out (with a #) or
remove the SENDMAIL option, like this.
#SENDMAIL /usr/lib/sendmail -t
SMTPRELAY smtp.example.net
SMTPUSERNAME foo
SMTPPASSWORD bar
HELONAME example.net
ENVFROM mix-bou...@example.net
The SMTPRELAY option makes mixmaster deliver to that smtp server instead
of sendmail. SMTPUSERNAME and SMTPPASSWORD are options you use if your
smtp server requires authentication. HELONAME is the host name that is
given. ENVFROM is who it will say the mail is from to the smtp server.
In order to edit mix.cfg, you need to open a terminal and type:
kdesu konqueror /var/lib/mixmaster.
Enter your root password when prompted and konqueror should open
and put you into /var/lib/mixmaster.
Open Mix.
Open mix.cfg.
Make the changes.
(2) HOW TO GET MIXMASTER TO USE A BETTER EDITOR THAN VI
My version of linux came with Kate and Kwrite, among other
editors. I use Kwrite. To see if you have Kwrite installed,
open a terminal and type /usr/bin/kwrite. If the editor opens,
it's installed.
Assuming it is installed, go to your /home/user/ folder.
Whatever editor you are using to look at the /home/user folder
should have a VIEW option on the toolbar. Get into that and
click on 'view hidden files'.
You should then see a file called .bash_profile. Open it.
Somewhere in there are a bunch of lines beginning with 'export'.
Insert a line among them and type: export EDITOR="/usr/bin/kwrite"
Reboot the computer.
Run mixmaster again, using its gui, and when you choose 'e' to
edit / create the file, you will find that you are editing with
kwrite rather than vi.
(3) HOW TO UPDATE YOUR STATS AND KEYS
Open a terminal and type: kdesu konqueror /var/lib/mixmaster
It will ask for your password. type it in.
Then it should open the Konqueror file browser and put you into
/var/lib/mixmaster.
Open Mix
Open update.conf and you will see something like this:
# Configfile for mixmaster-update (from the mixmaster package)
# see mixmaster-update(1) for documentation
SOURCE amessage
# PROXY http http://proxy.example.com:3128/
# PROXY ftp http://proxy.example.com:3128/
DESTINATION /var/lib/mixmaster/stats
All you need to do is choose the source. I use amessage, but
use whatever you like best.
Get out of that and back to the terminal.
Type in: kdesu mixmaster-update
Enter the password.
mixmaster-update should now run and get the latest stats from
amessage and update /var/lib/mixmaster/stats.
One thing I don't see getting updated or have even found, is
type2.list. I have no idea why that is not being updated
I'm sure there is a cron job of some kind that can be run to
do the stats update periodically and automatically. Anybody
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| Stray Cat |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:35 am |
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type2.list is no longer required by Mixmaster (recent *nix versions).
I ran this script on cron to keep stats and keys current. The URLs are
no longer valid, so change them to your favorite sources for this
stuff.
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/mixer/Mix
# Get Stats
wget -O - http://frogadmin.yi.org/MyMixSta2.txt >mlist.tmp
if [ -s mlist.tmp ]
then
cp mlist.tmp mlist.txt
fi
# Get Keys
wget -O - http://frogadmin.yi.org/Keys/pubring.mix >pubring.tmp
if [ -s pubring.tmp ]
then cp pubring.tmp pubring.mix
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| Tarapia Tapioco |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:33 am |
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In article <slrndkg88q.166.i3x9mdw@b29x3m.invalid>
Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid> wrote:
Quote:
On comp.os.linux.misc, in <a5adbb4fc178c083227ef3e33bcd17c7@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, "Fritz Wuehler" wrote:
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| Anonymous via the Cypherp |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:24 pm |
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In article <slrndkghol.1jf.i3x9mdw@b29x3m.invalid>
Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid> wrote:
Quote:
Removed from Newsgroups header:
"alt.asshole.alan-connor"
Added back in.
Quote:
The dickless moron thinks I am an "asshole".
You are, and your obsession with dicks is noted. |
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| Alan Connor |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:43 pm |
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On comp.os.linux.misc, in <a5adbb4fc178c083227ef3e33bcd17c7@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, "Fritz Wuehler" wrote:
<body not downloaded>
Ah. These cowardly idiots again.
Cowards, because they don't have the courage to identify
themselves to people and organizations they send mail to.
Idiots, because they don't understand that no one pays any
attention to the opinions of people who won't identify themselvesexcept other idiots.
More and more these days, organizations and individuals are
rejecting anonymous mail.
They use what are called "Challenge-Response Systems".
1. The CRS receives a mail, and if it is not from a passlisted
address, and is not obvious spam...
2. The mail is quarantined and a small auto-reponse (Challenge)
is sent to the sender asking them to paste a password in the body
onto the subject line and return the Challenge.
3. If the Challenge isn't returned, after a certain period of
time has passed, the mail is silently dumped.
The person running the Challenge-Response System never knows thatthe cowardly idiot even tried to mail them.
Note that on most CRSs, any mail clearly identified as being
anonymous is treated as spam and silently dumped.
Rejecting anonymous mail means rejecting spam and trollmail.
Challenge-Response Systems are the best way to keep spammers
and trolls out of your mailboxes.
They work like a charm.
Spammers and trolls HATE Challenge-Response Systems because
they can't beat them.
Now, a bunch of these dickless feebs and criminals are going
to post a bunch of garbage here.
Big yawn. They can't make me read their garbage on the Usenet
any more than they make me read the garbage they send to my
mail filter.
I am not reading any responses to this article, nor any articles
on this thread.
Don't like Challenge-Response Sustems?
I couldn't care less. Your opinion carries no weight here.
My mailboxes belong to me, not you.
If you want to mail me, then you have to identify yourself up
to a point that _I_ define. If you won't, I'll never even
know you tried to mail me.
I don't want to hear from cowards and idiots and criminals (spammers).
And I don't.
AC
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:32 pm |
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In article <slrndkgm9a.1ub.i3x9mdw@b29x3m.invalid>
Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid> wrote:
Quote:
On comp.os.linux.misc, in <pan.2005.10.08.22.47.19.911912@invalid.lan>, "Dan C" wrote:
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Dan C
Results 1 - 100 of 2,600 posts in the last year
Stalking noted. |
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| Alan Connor |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:40 pm |
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On comp.os.linux.misc, in <c18e948c18670a4984797cc5fb1c6445@firenze.linux.it>, "Tarapia Tapioco" wrote:
<body not downloaded>
From this bozo's headers:
Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address
above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer
software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the
remailer administrator at <abuse@ntani.firenze.linux.it>.
/quote
I'll bet this fool thinks that my name is Alan Connor and that I
have an account on Earthlink and that the IP that will show up in
my headers when I post this is the IP of the box I am typing this
on.
Here's a clue for you, Junior: I am not reading your posts
because the opinions of dickless morons are boring and don't
count for anything.
If you don't like what I have to say or how I do things, then
feel free to write your duly-elected representative.
Of course, if you won't identify yourself in the letter or email,
her/his staff will just dump it.
:-)
Run and hide, Junior, from people that couldn't harm you if you
posted your physical address and real name and photograph with
every article.
The only people that _could_ harm you don't give a tinker's
dam about dickless morons who post garbage on the Internet under
multiple aliases.
You can't even accuse anyone of libel because you can't libel
an anonymous poster :-)
"Your Honor, that person called me a 'pervert'."
"What's your name?"
"Anonymous, anon, anonymous, Anonymous Poster, Mike, Steve,
AA3499_B, julia roberts, Dan Herbert Joshua Boffin the III,
Zip, Mutant Porcupine, Free Speech,...."
"I see. You just sit there and relaxe. Some nice young men
in white coats are going to be by with a nice little solution
in a syringe that will make you feel JUST fine."
You are a ZERO threat to anyone.
Why, you can't even make me read your articles on the Usenet.
Or get a mail into my mailboxes.
Removed from Newsgroups header:
"alt.asshole.alan-connor"
Golly. I'm just devastated.
The dickless moron thinks I am an "asshole".
Whatever will I do?
AC
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| Dan C |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:47 pm |
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:40:11 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
Quote: The dickless moron thinks I am an "asshole".
Everybody thinks you're an asshole.
Quote: Whatever will I do?
Kill yourself.
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If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951 |
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| Len Soutland |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:09 pm |
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:40:11 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
Quote: On comp.os.linux.misc, in
c18e948c18670a4984797cc5fb1c6445@firenze.linux.it>, "Tarapia Tapioco"
wrote: <body not downloaded
From this bozo's headers:
Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It
was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report
problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at
abuse@ntani.firenze.linux.it>.
/quote
I'll bet this fool thinks that my name is Alan Connor and that I have an
account on Earthlink and that the IP that will show up in my headers when
I post this is the IP of the box I am typing this on.
Alan, if you are not posting under your real name and account, then what the HELL right do you have to go on about other people that post anonmyosly????
'By Their Deeds Shall Ye Know Them' you sumbitch!! In my part of the world we know what do to with HIPORCYTES like 'ALAN CONNOR'. So you better get right, 'ALAN' and stop your HIPRCOSY!!
i cant SLEEP at night becuase of this angry yeling and bastard connor LIES about his fool shatfordd lgight orcastre.
Quote:
Here's a clue for you, Junior: I am not reading your posts because the
opinions of dickless morons are boring and don't count for anything.
If you don't like what I have to say or how I do things, then feel free to
write your duly-elected representative.
Of course, if you won't identify yourself in the letter or email, her/his
staff will just dump it.
:-)
Run and hide, Junior, from people that couldn't harm you if you posted
your physical address and real name and photograph with every article.
The only people that _could_ harm you don't give a tinker's dam about
dickless morons who post garbage on the Internet under multiple aliases.
You can't even accuse anyone of libel because you can't libel an anonymous
poster :-)
"Your Honor, that person called me a 'pervert'."
"What's your name?"
"Anonymous, anon, anonymous, Anonymous Poster, Mike, Steve, AA3499_B,
julia roberts, Dan Herbert Joshua Boffin the III, Zip, Mutant Porcupine,
Free Speech,...."
"I see. You just sit there and relaxe. Some nice young men in white coats
are going to be by with a nice little solution in a syringe that will make
you feel JUST fine."
You are a ZERO threat to anyone.
Why, you can't even make me read your articles on the Usenet.
Or get a mail into my mailboxes.
Removed from Newsgroups header:
"alt.asshole.alan-connor"
Golly. I'm just devastated.
The dickless moron thinks I am an "asshole".
Whatever will I do?
AC |
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| Alan Connor |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:47 pm |
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On comp.os.linux.misc, in <pan.2005.10.08.22.47.19.911912@invalid.lan>, "Dan C" wrote:
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Dan C
Results 1 - 100 of 2,600 posts in the last year
10 alt.autos.dodge
1 alt.fan.tolkien
1 alt.games.doom
2 alt.games.unreal.tournament2003
8 alt.home.repair
1 alt.languages.portuguese
9 alt.music.yes
10 alt.os.linux
21 alt.os.linux.mandrake
1 alt.os.linux.mandriva
20 alt.os.linux.slackware
1 alt.toys.gi-joe
2 comp.os.linux.misc
1 comp.os.linux.networking
1 dfw.general
2 fa.linux.kernel
1 internetmarketers
1 linux.kernel
1 macromedia.flash
2 microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin
1 microsoft.public.windowsupdate
2 rec.arts.books.tolkien
1 rec.games.pinball
Under that alias.
AC
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| Alan Connor |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:20 pm |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:26 pm |
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid> wrote:
Perhaps they simply don't think enough of you to bother with identifying
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| Nomen Nescio |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:10 pm |
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Alan Connor wrote:
Quote: On comp.os.linux.misc, in <WPFDFBKL38634.3404282407@reece.net.au>, "Len Soutland" wrote:
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This alias has no posting history at google groups.
I removed the extra newsgroup from the headers.
Don't let these dickless morons pollute of the Usenet than they
already are.
Alan Connor would never pollute of the Usenet because then he would be dickless.
You're not polluting Usenet again are you Alan? |
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| Alan Connor |
| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:45 am |
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On comp.os.linux.misc, in <98371fabd90a60404412fb45e2b416b1@dizum.com>, "Nomen Nescio" wrote:
<body not downloaded>
According to my newsfilter, you are using the X-No-Archive: yes
header, and my newsreader says your post has zero lines.
Which means you are using a mail2news gateway, probably.
Big woo.
If there are any monkeys present in the audience, and they are
bored spitless, they can try it themselves. Took me 2 minutes
with a search engine on a dialup connection to find out how.
(the people that are into this "anonymous" crapola are serious
flakes so the webpage may not be up-to-date)
Send an email to:
mail2news_nospam@dizum.com
Just put whatever you have to say on the Usenet in the body
of the email and put this in the headers:
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc
Next lesson: How to wipe your own butthole. It's a lot
more difficult, so be prepared.
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Who are you hiding from, little boy?
Not me. You could send me your address and photograph and
a plane ticket, and I'd just tear them up and throw them away.
You could offer to have yourself delivered to my doorstep
in handcuffs and I'd have you sent to some hick town in
South Dakota instead. Anyplace but here.
You are boring. I have no desire to meet a boring person.
And you can't do anything to me. You can't even make me read the
dung you post.
Run along back to whatever kindergarden you normally hang out
in, where people are impressed with dickless, motormouthed
punks playing with their Mommy's computer.
If you think I care what you post, you are one dumb bunny.
Killscored. That means that this alias will always have a score
that will cause my newsreader to leave the body on the server
even if I have marked the thread to bring down the bodies.
AC
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| Fafnir |
| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:46 am |
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In article <slrndkg88q.166.i3x9mdw@b29x3m.invalid>
Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid> wrote:
Quote:
I don't want to hear from cowards and idiots and criminals
(spammers).
And I don't.
Bye.
Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out... |
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