Le 20/10/2010 21:04, John Watson a écrit :
Hello,
I am using postfix in conjunction with squirrelmail to build a
business application. One of the requirements that I have is that when
an email is received in one of the postfix mail boxes an alert is
generated. In our case we will be sending a standard message to
another email but in general we might want to run arbitrary code when
messages are received by postfix.
It seems that some of the work that has been done with virus scanners
uses a server hook to examine all the messages that pass through the
server. Can anyone tell me what that is called or provide a pointer to
more detail and is this the best way to solve a problem like this?
you can do that
- in your MDA (dovecot, maildrop, ...).
- by specifying a script as an MDA for those mailboxes that you want...
I personally prefer the "run the action later".
- keep delivery as it is
- have a script that does pop3 (or imap) periodically. this script can
do anything you want
the advantage is that
- bugs in your script won't cause trouble to your delivery
- if you're under heavy mail stream, you don't add yet more load on your
server
