[mlmmj] Setup issue : Suse10.1 and sendmail

[G Stansfield <gstansfield@isat.co.za>]

Greetings!
I am battling to get up and running with mlmmj; my mails are winding up 
in /var/spool/mqueue, and if I try to flush the queue I get an 
"Operating system error, broken pipe". I am probably missing something 
simple, but can't see it for the life of me!

Any help would be most welcome. I give details of what I did below. 
Please tell me if this is too much detail, and I will amend my ways in 
future.

Regards,
Geoff.

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I am using SuSE10.1 which has sendmail-8.13.6-9 mlmmj-1.2.11-15. The 
setup is a private network (192.168.x.x) using masquerading. The 
production environment will use an ADSL line; my test machine uses a 
dial-up. Both work fine with DNS, routing, POP, sendmail, Apache2 and 
Squid - and very little else. I get the same problem in both 
environments (switch off the ADSL router to catch the mails before they 
escape and come back 5 days later as undeliverable!)

1) I installed mlmmj from rpm using YaST

2) I modified sendmail's LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS settings in 
/usr/share/sendmail/ostype/suse-linux as per Matthias Kilian's mail of 
29 Jul 2005 (but note the SuSE default included a '0' ). The resulting 
mailer prog entry in sendmail.cf is :

Mprog,	P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu09P, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, 
D=$z:/,
		T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix,
		A=sh -c $u

3) I created my test list and made the alias entry thus :
# /usr/bin/mlmmj-make-ml.sh -L testing -a
and responded to the questions, did a newaliases.

4) I changed ownership to the DefaultUser defined in /etc/sendmail.cf :
# chown -R daemon:daemon /var/spool/mlmmj/testing

5) I added some users and mailed notifications :
# /usr/bin/mlmmj-sub -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testing/ -a 
geoff@suse10.stansfield -c
and the mail notification(s) got delivered.

6) As geoff I mutt to testing@suse10.stansfield and the mail ends up in 
/var/spool/mqueue.

7) Checked sendmail delivery (after a newaliases) :
# sendmail -bv testing@suse10.stansfield
"|/usr/bin/mlmmj-recieve -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testing/"... deliverable: 
mailer prog, user "|/usr/bin/mlmmj-recieve -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testing/"

8) I try flushing the queue and log the problem as follows :
# sendmail -q -v

Running /var/spool/mqueue/o4BCXUHx003730 (sequence 1 of 1)
"|/usr/bin/mlmmj-recieve -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testing/"... Connecting to 
prog...
putbody: write error: Broken pipe

Operating system error.

9) The only "non standard" tweak to sendmail has been to add a local 
ruleset so mails detailed in virtusertable get delivered locally instead 
of being bounced via the ISP. I can't see that being an issue - the 
mailer for mlmmj is not local but prog.

10) Now I know I have exhausted my knowledge and need help!!!!!!