Setting Up Mailman For External Email
Sending
Most people want to send email to the outside world from VISTA. So we will start with that.
First you need to set-up an Email Server that accepts unauthenticated email via SMTP and relays it to the outside world. If you have an old style smtp relay server from your ISP, that will suffice. If you, like me, have a server that will only accept TLS encyrpted and Authenticated SMTP, you can't send email directly from VISTA. Instead, you need to send it to a relay that will forward your email. I have had pretty good luck with postfix. We will to that part in a moment.
If you have an unauthenticated SMTP, make an new entry in the Domain file like this, assuming that your SMTP is smtp.example.com.
NAME: smtp.example.com FLAGS: S MAILMAN HOST: smtp.example.com DISABLE TURN COMMAND: YES TRANSMISSION SCRIPT: TOMYSMTP PRIORITY: 1 NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS: 4 TYPE: TCP/IP Channel PHYSICAL LINK / DEVICE: NULL NETWORK ADDRESS (MAILMAN HOST): smtp.example.com TEXT: O H="smtp.example.com",P=TCP/GTM C TCPCHAN-SOCKET25/GTM SYNONYM: NET SYNONYM: COM SYNONYM: ORG SYNONYM: JO
These synonyms turn out to be important. VISTA will look for the email domain suffix, and match it against a domain. By default, VISTA will send email to your parent domain if it can't match the domain suffix.
Now, what if you don't have an unencrypted unauthenticated SMTP server to send to? Well, in that case, you need to send your emails to a relay mail agent who logs in and encrypts data on your behalf.
I saw this article for setting up Postfix as a relay server for email; and that's what I used to get postfix to authenticate against my company's smtp server that uses STARTTLS. http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/send-mail-postfix-through-gmails-smtp-on-a-ubuntu-lts-server/
In that case, your domain will look like this:
NAME: 127.0.0.1 FLAGS: S MAILMAN HOST: 127.0.0.1 DISABLE TURN COMMAND: YES TRANSMISSION SCRIPT: TOGMAIL PRIORITY: 1 NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS: 4 TYPE: TCP/IP Channel PHYSICAL LINK / DEVICE: NULL NETWORK ADDRESS (MAILMAN HOST): 127.0.0.1 TEXT: O H="127.0.0.1",P=TCP/GTM C TCPCHAN-SOCKET25/GTM SYNONYM: NET SYNONYM: COM SYNONYM: ORG SYNONYM: JO
Receiving
While you can expose your VISTA system to the outside world, it is better to have email go through your own mail server and then be relayed to VISTA. Either way, the VISTA set-up is the same.
I have a domain name that is linked to my ip address through dynamic DNS. So I opened port 25 on my router and had it forwarded to the machine hosting VISTA on port 25 on the machine. So if I send email to my domain from Gmail, it reaches VISTA.
Set-up a xinetd listener to forward requests on port 25 (or another port, if you are forwarding email to VISTA from a mail server) to a script that sets up GT.M and calls GTMLNX^XMRUCX.
sudo cat vista_pocn-moh_mm_port25
service vista-mm
{
disable = no
port = 25
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = sam
server = /bin/bash
groups = yes
server_args = /home/sam/pocn-moh/mm_rpcproc
type = UNLISTED
wait = no
}
sam@sam-desktop:~/pocn-moh$ cat mm_rpcproc #!/bin/bash # cd /home/sam/pocn-moh export gtm_dist=/opt/fis-gtm/V5.4-002A/utf8/ export gtmroutines="uo(routines) $gtm_dist" export gtmgbldir=mumps.gld export PATH=$PATH:$gtm_dist export gtm_chset=utf-8 export gtm_icu_version=4.2 export gtm_badchar=0 date>>rpc_log.log $gtm_dist/mumps -run GTMLNX^XMRUCX 2>> rpc_log.log exit 0
Stop xinetd and start it in debug mode:
sam@sam-desktop:/etc/xinetd.d$ sudo service xinetd stop * Stopping internet superserver xinetd [ OK ] sam@sam-desktop:/etc/xinetd.d$ sudo xinetd -d
Make sure you see this line to indicate that your service started.
11/5/18@13:06:29: DEBUG: 6623 {cnf_start_services} Started service: vista-mm
Check netstat -tnlp to see that your port is open.
sam@sam-desktop:~$ netstat -tnlp (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9200 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9201 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9270 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8001 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9250 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10025 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9260 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9100 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::5900 :::* LISTEN 1472/vino-server
Now, to actually send an email message. First, find a real email address in VISTA. I do that by going to my Mailman account on VISTA and see what my address is.
Good afternoon STAR
You last signed on yesterday at 16:22
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Select Core Applications Option: MM MailMan Menu
VA MailMan 8.0 service for HABIEL.SAM_M@MOH.AMMAN.JO
You last used MailMan: 05/17/11@16:22
You have no new messages.
NML New Messages and Responses
RML Read/Manage Messages
SML Send a Message
Query/Search for Messages
AML Become a Surrogate (SHARED,MAIL or Other)
Personal Preferences ...
Other MailMan Functions ...
Help (User/Group Info., etc.) ...
Select MailMan Menu Option:
So my email address is HABIEL.SAM_M@MOH.AMMAN.JO. Nice. Let's see if I can send myself an email. Text in bold are my commands to VISTA.
sam@sam-desktop:~/pocn-moh$ <b>telnet localhost 25</b> Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 MOH.AMMAN.JO MailMan 8.0 ready <b>HELO SAM.EXAMPLE.COM</b> 250 OK MOH.AMMAN.JO [8.0,DUP,SER,FTP] <b>MAIL FROM:<sam.habiel@example.com></b> 250 OK Message-ID:1055@MOH.AMMAN.JO <b>RCPT TO:<HABIEL.SAM_M@MOH.AMMAN.JO></b> 250 'RCPT' accepted <b>DATA</b> 354 Enter data <b>From: Outside Sam <sam.habiel@example.com> To: VISTA Sam <HABIEL.SAM_M@MOH.AMMAN.JO> Date: May 18 2011 Subject: Hello VISTA Hello VISTA. This is an external message going to VISTA. .</b> 250 'data' accepted <b>QUIT</b> 221 MOH.AMMAN.JO Service closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host.
You should see this in xinetd:
11/5/18@13:17:27: DEBUG: 6623 {server_start} Starting service vista-mm
11/5/18@13:17:27: DEBUG: 6623 {main_loop} active_services = 7
Here's the message in VISTA:
Subj: Hello VISTA [#1055] May 18 2011 1 line From: Outside Sam <sam.habiel@example.com> In 'IN' basket. Page 1 *New* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello VISTA. This is an external message going to VISTA. Enter message action (in IN basket): Ignore//
Good. So now we have it. Bear in mind though that in real life, you need to tell email coming from Google or Yahoo that @EXAMPLE.COM needs to go to a specific IP address through an MX Domain Record. Also, you need to tell VISTA that its Domain is VISTA.COM so it receives the messages instead of tossing them away.
