Hi Ben!

Thanks to your reply, I was able to make great headway in getting this to work :)

I still have one error message I can't solve - but first, this is what I did to move things along...

As I mentioned offline to Geof, I already figured out the Sendmail MTA wasn't getting the mlmmj program call, as you suspected. I've made all references to my domain and email list below generic, to make things easier to read.

I tried your suggestion by replacing the aliases entry program-call for mlmmj, with a simple "cat" command to determine if this was a Sendmail issue, or mlmmj... turns out the "cat" command would not fire either.

Here's what I did to get Sendmail to successfully fire the basic "cat" command:

- I added an entry to the /etc/mail/virtusertable file:

 listname@mydomain.com   listname.mydomain.com

- then I changed the entry in the /etc/aliases file:
from:

    listname: "|cat > /tmp/mailtest.txt"

to:

    listname.mydomain.com: "|cat > /tmp/mailtest.txt"

Presto! The "cat" command fired when I sent an email to listname@mydomain.com.

(*NOTE: this differs from the README documentation on the mlmmj website; which has the aliases entry displayed as "listname: xxxxxxxx" instead of "listname.mydomain.com: xxxxxxx" - I'm not sure if this is Sendmail specific, or if this may be important for other MTAs as well... )

So now I had Sendmail set correctly to potentially fire the mlmmj program, so I tried this /etc/aliases entry:

listname.mydomain.com: "|/usr/local/bin/mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/listname"

It did get as far as trying to call mlmmj-receive, but it failed to start mlmmj-receive:

Oct 15 18:45:22 cloud smrsh: uid 8: attempt to use "mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/listname" (stat failed)

Oct 15 18:45:22 cloud sendmail[4560]: s9FIjLBe004558: to="|/etc/smrsh/mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/listname", ctladdr=<listname@mydomain.com> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=35725, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable

Oct 15 18:45:22 cloud sendmail[4560]: s9FIjLBe004558: s9FIjMBe004560: DSN: Service unavailable

smrsh: "mlmmj-receive" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

So here's what I did to get mlmmj-receive to fire through the restricted shell utility smrsh:

- I created symlinks for the mlmmj-xxx executables in the /etc/smrsh directory:

 ln -s  /usr/local/bin/mlmmj-xxxxx

Now mlmmj-receive executes when I send an email to listname@mydomain.com!

Unfortunately, I'm now getting the following bounce-error message:

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/listname"
    (reason: 1)
    (expanded from: <listname@mydomain.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
Have to invoke either as root or as the user owning listdir
554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1

The symlinks and the actual mlmmj-xxxx files are all chmod as 755, but I'm not sure how or where to effect a permissions change to get sendmail to "invoke" mlmmj-receive with the proper permissions.

As you can see, this is progress from where I was before... any ideas on how I should address the permissions error coming from mlmmj-receive?

Philip

On 10/14/2014 11:02 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:

Hi, Philip,

Yes, we are definitely still here! Development has slowed a bit
recently, but not stopped, and the mailing list is small, but friendly;
we help when we can.

Looks like not many people know how to configure Sendmail. I toyed with
it many years ago, and can remember nothing.

Perhaps if you send some configuration snippets we will have a better
chance helping.

It seems to me like the mail is never even getting to Mlmmj, i.e. that
it is a Sendmail issue, not an Mlmmj issue. Maybe the Sendmail mailing
list would be a better source of help.

Perhaps worth a try is putting some other program in place of Mlmmj,
e.g. a script that just does cat > /tmp/mymail. Perhaps even temporarily
replacing the mlmmj-receive binary with that script is smartest, as you
are changing fewest things in the system, then. Then you can send an
email to the list address and see if it ends up in /tmp/mymail. If so,
it looks more like an Mlmmj-related issue. If not, get that working
first, and then replace with Mlmmj and see if you have more luck.

Let us know how you go!

Ben.