NAME
    Configuring cabot without the need for root access

INTRODUCTION
    This manual explains you to configure cabot for your user account,
    without the need for root access. No system account cabot is needed.

REQUIREMENTS
    You need to set several email addresses in your cabot configuration file
    for cabot to work properly. This manual assumes you receive your mail
    directly to john@example.com and your MTA lets you add arbitrary
    suffixes to your local part, for example "john-whatever@example.com". If
    your MTA is exim you may want to have a look at the local_part_suffix
    and local_part_suffix_optional variables.

    If you use postfix set recipient_delimiter in main.cf:
    recipient_delimiter = +

    You need to adapt the example email addresses to the delimiter your MTA
    understand (john+extension instead of john-extension).

CABOT CONFIGURATION
    The first step is to write your personal cabot configuration file in
    ~/.cabotrc. Most variables are self explanatory and here are some
    guidelines for a complete automation of the process:

    BCCmail
        This is an address where you want to get a copy of all email sent by
        cabot. Though not strictly necessary it may be useful when your
        correspondent loses its challenge email. I suggest something of the
        line of john-ca-out@example.com.

    bot This is the addresse of the bot. It is the address where the
        challenge replies are sent; you could chose something like
        john-cabot@example.com.

INTEGRATION WITH PROCMAIL
    Challenge replies should be fed to ca-recv(1), so the following procmail
    recipe achieves this :

     :0
     * ^To: john-cabot\@example\.com
     |/usr/bin/ca-recv
 
    If you would like to keep a copy of challenge replies, you can try the
    following instead :

     :0c
     * ^To: john-cabot\@example\.com
     challenges/

     :0A
     |/usr/bin/ca-recv

    Outgoing challenges may be kept in a separate mailbox as well:

     :0
     * ^To: john-ca-out\@example\.com
     cabot/

INTEGRATION WITH .forward FILES
    The idea is the same as with procmail rules : put

     |/usr/bin/ca-recv

    in a file named ~/.forward-cabot. You get the idea.

VERSION
    This manpage: $Id: ca-bot-noroot.pod 126 2004-03-25 10:09:09Z weasel $

SEE ALSO
    ca-bot(7)

