On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:50:05PM +0000, Trier, James wrote: > Hi, > > I'm standing up Postfix to intercept inbound email to a particular domain. > What I'd like to do is take the inbound emails that reach this Postfix host, > regardless of its final destination address, and place them on the file > system as a flat file. And that's it. We have another custom application that > is going poll that directory and run some customizations on the messages and > then forward them to an internal application that is using JAVA Mail to > process them. > > Does anyone have any examples or simple solutions for this configuration? > > Regards, > > James Trier > QUALCOMM
Hi James, Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like your best bet is to take advantage of the interfaces that Postfix already supplies to process mail messages. It will save the message in a queue file on the spool filesystem by default. Then you can have it pass the message to another system for processing through either an SMTP or LMTP interface. Alternatively, you can use a content filter or a milter to process the message and then pass the results to the Java Mail with normal SMTP routing. You could use a local delivery agent to drop it into a directory for processing, but then you have all the usual locking and error management problems that you will get for free with the documented interfaces. Regards, Ken
