Mail delivery option not working as expected

Question

Hi Jay,
I am running MS 6.0p1. I am using Sun ONE Delegated Administrator for Messaging and Collaboration
Version 1.2P2 to create and maintain mailboxes.
I have a need to run a program when mail is sent to a certain mailbox, so I created the mailbox and went into the Mail Delivery Options screen, checked the "Enable the following programs" checkbox, and put the full path to the command in the box. When I tried to send a message to the specified address, it bounced.
Thinking that there was something wrong with the program itself, I tried to simplify the test by setting the program to "/bin/false", but that still bounced.
Here is the LDAP entry for the mailbox in question:
dn: uid=test, ou=people, o=qisc.com,o=q
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: inetUser
objectClass: ipUser
objectClass: nsManagedPerson
objectClass: userPresenceProfile
objectClass: inetMailUser
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
mail: [email protected]
mailUserStatus: active
dataSource: NDA 4.5 Delegated Administrator
mailHost: quixote.qisc.com
givenName: Test
cn: Test Program
uid: test
nsdaCapability: mailListCreate
sn: Program
preferredLanguage: en
inetUserStatus: active
userPassword: {SSHA}value deleted==
mailDeliveryOption: program
mailProgramDeliveryInfo: /bin/falseWhen I send mail to this address, here's the bounce message:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
  Recipient address: test%/bin/false@pipe-daemon
  Original address: [email protected]
  Reason: Address not found in database
Reporting-MTA: dns;quixote.qisc.com (pipe-daemon)
Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Final-recipient: rfc822;test%/bin/false@pipe-daemon
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (Address not found in database)What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Bill

Answer 1

As it turns out, setting this up was simple, one I figured out the "imsimta program" thing.
Here's what I did to get this working.
1. Created the following shell script named "deliver-listserv" in the /var/opt/SUNWmsgsr/site-programs directory:
#!/bin/ksh
#       Script to invoke the LISTSERV lsv_amin command when a
# message is sent to a mailing list.
LISTSERV_HOME=~listserv
LSV_AMIN=$LISTSERV_HOME/bin/lsv_amin
SPOOL_DIR=$LISTSERV_HOME/spool
listAddress=$1
listAddress=${listAddress%+listserv}
if [ "$listAddress" = "" ];then
        exit 1
fi
exec $LSV_AMIN $SPOOL_DIR $listAddress2. Set the permissions of the above script to 755.
3. Added this program to the list of approved programs using the imsimta program command:
imsimta program -a -m listserv -p deliver-listserv -e postmaster -g "%s"4. For each list in question, created a mailbox for all of the addresses required by LISTSERV (in this case, test, owner-test, test-request, test-search-request, test-server, test-signoff-request, and test-subscribe-request).
5. For each of the mailboxes created in #5, set the mail delivery options to run the message using the listserv method defined in #3 by checking the "Enable the following programs" checkbox and specifying "listserv" in the command text box. This sets the following attributes in the mailbox's LDAP entry:
mailDeliveryOption: program
mailProgramDeliveryInfo: listservThat's all it takes. Since I specified the "-g" option to supply the username when the program is called, the string "test+listserv" is passed to my script, where I simply strip off the "+listserv" and then invoke the lsv_amin program to handle the delivery. Darned if it didn't work on the first try!
Bill