Spacelee:
> hi everything, I met a problem recently because we need to add a new
> function to our product.
> the problem is for each valid incoming email, we need to call a script to
> insert it to different databases, someone said I could add this to the
> /etc/aliases, like : b...@example.org: "|/tmp/somescripts.sh", but it's only
> used for special users, unable for all the users(or emails)
>
> what should I do? do you have any suggestions?
I concur with the suggestions to use a database engine that supports
the LMTP protocol, such as DBmail. With a proper protocol such as
LMTP, there is no need for the overhead of running a command-level
tool for each individual email delivery. LMTP is also much better
at handling delivery errors.
Wietse
