On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:04:44AM +0500, rihad wrote:
> in the myprog shell script, after it has done its job, how to pass
> control to virtual(8)? Something like echo "OK virtual"? You're
> talking to a postfix newbie facing too close a deadline, please bear
> with me ;-)
You can't. Postfix has a limited set of documented interfaces between
Postfix internal processes and external processes. "pipe" is one of
them, "virtual" is not. Once postfix hands off the mail to "pipe", it's
in your hands.
In your case (SMS notifications) however, I would keep things simple
and not try to integrate it so tightly into the delivery process, but
just fork your incoming mails to two transports: "virtual" for actual
delivery (handled by Postfix) and your own transport for the SMS
notifications. You can do this with virtual aliases:
f...@yourdomain.net f...@yourdomain.net f...@sms.yourdomain.net
b...@yourdomain.net b...@yourdomain.net b...@sms.yourdomain.net
...
yourdomain.net would be configured as a regular virtual domain, and for
sms.yourdomain.net you'd have to setup a separate transport:
sms.yourdomain.net smsnotif:
Where you define smsnotif in master.cf with "pipe" to a script of your
own. Be careful about error handling here, so you don't start bouncing
mails to senders when the sms script doesn't work. For something non-
essential as SMS notifications, I'd just log and ignore errors, and
always return 0.
Geert
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