Configuration of mlmmj with OpenSMTPD

[Jan Eden <tech@eden.one>]

Hi,

after using Mailman3 (with Postfix) for a couple of years, I was looking
for a (much) simpler solution and found mlmmj. What a great tool. I plan
to use it with OpenSMTPD and in my initial testing, I struggled to
create an elegant, integrated configuration. The following configuration
does work –

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table mailing_lists file:/usr/local/etc/mail/lists
action "mlmmj" expand-only virtual <mailing_lists>
match from any for rcpt-to <mailing_lists> action "mlmmj"
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with a lists file containing entries like

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testing@example.com "|/usr/local/bin/mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testing/"
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But when I try to reference the mlmmj-receive binary in smtpd.conf
directly like this:

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table mailing_lists file:/usr/local/etc/mail/lists
action "mlmmj" mda "/usr/local/bin/mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/%{rcpt.user}/"
match from any for rcpt-to <mailing_lists> action "mlmmj"
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with list entries like

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testing@example.com testing
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The server always returns an error message:

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msmtp: recipient address testing@example.com not accepted by the server
msmtp: server message: 550 Invalid recipient: <testing@example.com>
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I know that the "mda" action should work in this scenario, but I cannot
get it to work, neither in the form quoted above nor with the addition
of "virtual <mailing_lists>". I asked my question on the OpenSMTPD
mailing list, too, but no one could point me to my error (which must be
somewhere).

Thanks in advance for any hint,
Jan