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,
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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WARD Ward Clerk Menu ...
Medication Administration Menu Pharmacy ...
Physician Menu ...
Rad/Nuc Med Total System Menu ...
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.
sam@sam-desktop:~/pocn-moh$ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 MOH.AMMAN.JO MailMan 8.0 ready HELO SAM.EXAMPLE.COM 250 OK MOH.AMMAN.JO [8.0,DUP,SER,FTP] MAIL FROM:<sam.habiel@example.com> 250 OK Message-ID:1055@MOH.AMMAN.JO RCPT TO:<HABIEL.SAM_M@MOH.AMMAN.JO> 250 'RCPT' accepted DATA 354 Enter data 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. . 250 'data' accepted QUIT 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
