Gary Smith:
> > Gary Smith:
> > > Hi team,
> > >
> > > I may have asked this years ago, but I can't find it in my email.
> > > I have a need to retrieve the queue_id of emails submitted at time of
> > > submission when issuing submissions with the -G option. I can see
> > > that there is a queue_id on all of the output specified in -vv. With
> > > that I can grab all the output and extract queue_id, but I'm wondering
> > > if there is a better or recommended way of doing this?
> >
> > The Postfix sendmail+postdrop commands create a queue file in the
> > maildrop directory. That is NOT the queue ID that Postfix will use during
> > actual message deliveries.
> >
> > If you need the queue ID that is used during message deliveries.
> > then you need to submit mail with SMTP (preferably, using the "submission"
> > port).
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Wieste,
>
> Sorry for the slow follow up. To make sure that I'm on the same page,
>
> Exiting:
> master.cf:
> smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
> -o content_filter=jbaddrfix:dummy
> jbaddrfix unix - n n - 10 pipe
> flags=Rq user=filter argv=/etc/postfix/custom/jb_mail_processor.py --from
> ${sender} --recipient ${recipient}
>
> main.cf:
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/custom/virtual_alias
>
> So for all incoming email I want to pass it off to the jb_mail_processor
> script. This script internally breaks the email down into a list
> of unique emails based upon the --recipient map values passed in
> from smtp to jbaddrfix.
>
> Inside of the script file we re-inject it back into the process
> via "/usr/sbin/sendmail -G -I -f @sender -- @recipient"
This creates the temporary queue file in the maildrop directory,
which is not recorded in Postfix's delivery logs.
> Instead of using the /usr/sbin/sendmail I should run it directly
> back into the submission/smtp as a new email? If so, what's the
> best command to do that, and best way to log the queue id of that
> new email being submitted?
A dedicated SMTP service that receives mail like the 'advanced'
example in http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html. This service
will report the new queue ID in its response to 'end-of-data'.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as XXXXX
This is the queue ID that is recorded in Postfix's delivery logs.
Wietse
> Sorry, not trying to be dense here, I've just always done it using
> sendmail and haven't needed tracking until now.
