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Last active April 28, 2023 03:36
How to get Sendmail to speak LMTP to GNU Mailman3

Sendmail and Mailman3 - Solving the LMTP problem

Current versions of Sendmail can speak LMTP to local processes, but how to make that happen seems poorly documented. When trying to get it to talk to GNU Mailman3 recently, I found next to no documentation, and a lot of people asking how to do it, so I'm leaving this here in the hopes that it helps someone.

This document shows a simplified example of how I did it on my Ubuntu 20.04 system, at least in terms of Sendmail configuration. While I'm using a "lists" subdomain, that seems entirely optional with this technique.

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