mlmmj-receive(1)

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version 2.2.0 · 2 versions
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💌 mlmmj-receive — the Gen Z field guide 💌

okay bestie, so this is mlmmj-receive(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the front door for your mailing list's mail. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mlmmj-receive — receive mails for an mlmmj managed mailinglist 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mlmmj-receive -L /path/to/listdir [-h] [-V] [-P] [-F]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea, the flags first, one by one, no skipping 💅

  • -h — print help. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀
  • -F — don't fork in the background. and before you get any ideas: "debugging only" 🚨
  • -L path — full path to the list directory. like, the whole path, not a lil shortcut ✨
  • -P — don't execute mlmmj-process(1). also "debugging only" 🙈
  • -V — print version. slay, now you know what you're running ⭐

so the mlmmj-receive binary is THE one you put in your mailserver's configuration file (the aliases file, iykyk). what it does: writes the mail into the <listdir>/incoming directory 📥 and then invokes mlmmj-process(1) — unless you passed -P, in which case it does not. periodt.

on systems using mailservers that support the /etc/aliases file, a line to activate an mlmmj managed mailinglist would look like this:

list: "|/usr/bin/mlmmj-receive -L /var/spool/mlmmj/list/"
⚠️ bestie, listen to me on this one: it is very important to specify the full path to the binary, or the mailinglist will not function. not "might not". will not. no cap. 😭

now, when the -F option is used, it will not fork in the background. why does it fork at all, you ask? because if delivery of a mail takes longer than the mail server will allow a command to be idle before presumed dead, the mail server would kill it 💀 so the fork is genuinely the main character here, protecting your delivery from getting unalived by the mail server.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

💜 AUTHORS 💜

this manual page was written by the following persons:

  • Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output)
  • Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@mmj.dk>

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this iconic lil doc comes to you from Debian, dated September 1, 2004 — yes it's been serving since 2004 and it's still eating 🔥 take care of your mailinglist, use the full path, and stay hydrated 🍓💖

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