---
name: "mlmmj-process"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mlmmj"
version: "1.5.2-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mlmmj-process"
---

# mlmmj-process(1)

process mail for an mlmmj managed mailinglist

## NAME

**mlmmj-process** – process mail for an mlmmj managed mailinglist

## SYNOPSIS

**mlmmj-process** **-***/path/to/list* **-m** **-/path/to/mail** \[**-h**\] \[**-P**\] \[**-V**\]

## DESCRIPTION

- **-h**

  Print help

- **-L** *path*

  Full path to list directory

- **-m** *mail*

  Full path to mail file

- **-P**

  Don't execute mlmmj-send (debugging only)

- **-V**

  Print version

This is the binary which processes a mail. Examples of what such processing is:

- Access control

  Using the access rules specified in *\<listdir\>/control/access* to perform access control to the list. This is done before headers are stripped, so one can create allow rules based on headers that are later stripped.

- Header stripping

  Headers specified in *\<listdir\>/control/delheaders* are deleted from the mail.

- Header addition

  Headers specified in *\<listdir\>/control/customheaders* are added to the mail. This could be headers like "List-ID:" or "Reply-To:"

- List control

  In case there's a mail with a recipient delimiter it's not a regular list mail. Processing of these happens in mlmmj-receive as well.

  Examples of such are: subscription requests, mails to owner etc.

  It will base it's recipient delimiter detection on the "Delivered-To:" header if present. If not, the "To:" header is used.

- Moderation

  If the list is moderated, it will happen in mlmmj-process.

When processing is done, it will invoke the needed binary according to whatever mail it is. If it's a subscription request it will invoke mlmmj-sub, if it's a regular list mail it will invoke [mlmmj-send(1)](/mlmmj-send/1.md).

## SEE ALSO

The file TUNABLES from the mlmmj source distribution or in the documentation directory of the operating system distribution.

## 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*⟩