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

# mlmmj-recieve(1)

receive mails for an mlmmj managed mailinglist

Part of [mlmmj-receive(1)](/mlmmj-receive/1.md).

## NAME

**mlmmj-receive** – receive mails for an mlmmj managed mailinglist

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

- **-h**

  Print help

- **-F**

  Don't fork in the background "debugging only"

- **-L** *path*

  Full path to list directory

- **-P**

  Don't execute [mlmmj-process(1)](/mlmmj-process/1.md) "debugging only"

- **-V**

  Print version

The mlmmj-receive binary is the one specified in the mailserver configuration file (aliases file), which writes the mail to the *\<listdir\>/incoming* *directory* and invokes [mlmmj-process(1)](/mlmmj-process/1.md) unless the **-P** option is specified. On systems using mailservers supporting 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/"
```

It's very important to specify the full path to the binary, or the mailinglist will not function.

When the **-F** option is used, it will not fork in the background. The reason it forks is that if delivery of a mail takes longer time than the mail server will allow a command to be idle before presumed dead, the mail server would kill it.

## SEE ALSO

[mlmmj-process(1)](/mlmmj-process/1.md)

## 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*⟩