Greetings,
My name is Mike Laris and I am a volunteer with two 501(c)(3) animal
rescue organizations : Texas Great Pyrenees Rescue (txpyrs.org) and
Saint Bernard Rescue Foundation of Texas (saintrescuetx.org). Part of
my volunteer activities for both these groups has been to write and
maintain the websites. I am a Java programmer in my day job, and have
written these websites using Java/Postgresql and CentOS.
Recently, the groups ask me to add a feature to the application such
that certain notification emails would be automatically sent when an
adoption application is received, and to allow the application to
receive and automatically process certain emails. The actual Java
software to do this was not that difficult, however I have been stymied
attempting to get the Postfix server to work properly. The current
problem centers around the Address Verification feature of Postfix. I
have been reading documentation for much of this weekend, and I still
have no clue what I need to change, so I have decided to ask for help
from some experts. This is how I want to configure the system:
(NOTE: In all examples, I am using just one of the sites, txpyrs.org,
but the other site will be analogous.)
1. Allow all emails that originate on the txpyrs.org from a select group
of users (tgpr_mail, mlaris, kanctil) to send mail OUT
2. Only allow user tgpr_mail to receive email from outside txpyrs.org
3. Put in whatever necessary protections are required to help prevent spam
The actual emails that need to be processed are:
1. Send an email to a person who has submitted an adoption/volunteer
application confirming that we have received the application. This is
basically a form email that simply confirms receipt of the application.
The MAIL_FROM will always be tgpr_m...@txpyrs.org and the RCPT_TO will
be whatever address the person provided to us on the application form.
2. Send a periodic email newsletter to people who have subscribed to the
mailing list. The MAIL_FROM and RCPT_TO are the same as in #1. The
mailing list is maintained by the application.
3. Send a notification email to a Yahoo group informing the group that a
new application has arrived. The Yahoo group is a mailing list that
will forward the email to a set of volunteers that process adoption
applications. The MAIL_FROM is always going to be tgpr_m...@txpyrs.org
and the RCPT_TO will always be the email address of the Yahoo group.
4. Allow tgpr_m...@txpyrs.org to receive emails from a Fax-to-email
service (which we have yet to pick) that will be used by the
vetrinarians (and possibly others) to FAX medical records. I am writing
a EJB that can read the incoming mail and automatically insert the
attached PDF (or other attachements) into the database. Upon receipt
of a FAX, the application will send an email from tgpr_mail to a list of
volunteers.
Unfortunately,I don't know how to do any of these thing in Postfix. I'm
a very good Java programmer, and an Ok Linux admin, but I have no
experience with this. I can (or already have) created all of the Java
code to create/process the emails from the application level. Once it
is sent to Postfix for delivery, I'm lost. I am looking for someone who
might be willing to donate some time to help me get this configured
properly. It is for a good cause.
I can provide what ever configuration files or other details are
necessary. I know so little about Postfix, that I do not even know
which config files are important, and which are not.
Mike Laris
mgla...@gmail.com
