Re: [mlmmj] testing mlmmj using Sendmail on a CentOS server

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Ben,

Success!!!

The LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS entry for sendmail.cf worked, and I'm now able to 
send posts to my mlmmj email list.

To recap my steps to getting mlmmj working with Sendmail on a CentOS server:

- mlmmj installed into /usr/local/bin/ by default... but I had to create 
symlinks, one for each mlmmj script, in the /etc/smrsh/ directory before 
they would run when called from sendmail (which uses the smrsh shell).

- to get sendmail to include a Return Path, I added this line to 
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc:

    define(`LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS', `eu9P')dnl

...then ran "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf" ...to 
update the changes to the real sendmail.cf file, and restarted the 
sendmail service

- I ran mlmmj-make-ml to create a mailing list

- I created an entry in the /etc/mail/virtusertable file:

listname@xxxxxxxxxxxx    listname.mydomain.com


- I had to update/change the /etc/aliases entry that was auto-created by 
mlmmj-make-ml, from:

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

to:

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

to correctly match the list alias in the virtusertable file, and because 
the symlinks were now directly in the /etc/mail/smrsh directory

- I ran the following chown command, to set the owner of the list dir 
and files to the "mail" user:

chown -R mail /var/spool/mlmmj/[listdir]

- I'm not sure I needed to, but I also created a list-owner entry in the 
virtusertable file:

listname-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx    listname-owner.mydomain.com

and an entry in the /etc/aliases file:

listname-owner.mydomain.com   myownaddr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 

I think this covers all the steps I took to successfully configure mlmmj 
for the Sendmail MTA on my CentOS server.  It looks complicated, but 
it's actually not that much work to get it running. (it was a long slog 
to figure out, though!)

I've already created a couple of our small working lists already, and 
have several more to build - which leads me to a couple follow-on 
questions, but I'll send them to the support list under a new thread 
heading.

Thanks again to Ben and Geof for helping me get from zero to 100% up and 
running!

Philip


On 10/16/2014 9:39 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> On 17/10/14 6:02 AM, webmaster@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Oct 16 18:30:00 cloud /etc/smrsh/mlmmj-process[5506]: 
> > mlmmj-process.c:811: Discarding 
> > /var/spool/mlmmj/listname/incoming/6386743745f1a098 due to missing 
> > envelope from address: Success
> >
> > I understand the "due to missing envelope from address" error is a 
> > reference to an
> > (empty) envelope from address, but I'm not sure why this is being 
> > triggered.
>
> The envelope from isn't empty, it's just not passing from Sendmail to
> Mlmmj properly.
>
> Strangely, Mlmmj doesn't look for a Unix/mbox "From " line to extract an
> envelope from address. I actually think this is an Mlmmj shortcoming,
> and I will attempt to address it in a future release.
>
> However, Mlmmj does look for a Return-Path header, and that is
> conspicuously missing from the headers you posted. Did you include
>
> define(`LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS', `eu9P')dnl
>
> in your Sendmail config as per <http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-sendmail/>?
>
> It's the capital P that is necessary to include the Return-Path header.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ben.
>
>
>
>
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