James Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We have an alias set up in postfix that sends the e-mail to our script >> via a pipe. >> >> The python script imports our Django models, and parses the e-mail >> message with the email module, and does what it needs to. >> > > You can also use Python's built-in SMTP server module to set up a > lightweight server process, and have your regular MTA forward messages > to it. This lets the entire mail-processing routine happen in Python, > which is often a bit easier to set up. > > See Doug Hellmann's recent PyMOTW article on this for some basic > details: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2008/10/pymotw-smtpd.html >
This sounds like the best of both worlds option. One python process for all e-mails without the overhead of having to check the e-mail passively. A second server still needs to be run, but if you aren't already running a mail server that "disadvantage" goes away. I may consider switching to this. Jeff Anderson
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