postfix and pipe to perl script

[rig108]

i have tried two options to pipe t a perl script
and i am looking for a third as the two I thought wil not work

1st option


what i have done is set up postfix to accept mail to 'foo@rep.robin.com'

and deliver them via pipe to the command "repserver -d foo"



its the "deliver them via pipe to the command repserver -d foo"

than i do not know how to set up.?



but my thinking is:



in /etc/aliases someusername: | repserver.pl(path to it)

run newaliases



2nd option

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echo '"| /path/to/repserver.pl"' >>~/.forward





Why both options will not work:





in the .forward. I must remember the repserver script is able to add new users when they complete the registration process, so I would have to modify the script in order to run one of these two commands after a successful registration. This is messy. I'm quite sure there is a cleaner way to ask postfix to pipe every mails received for ${foo}@${nymdomain} to "repserver.pl -d $foo".?





two commands means i cannot use .forward or /etc/aliases

 

[lgarner]

You could use procmail like this:

| repserver.pl $LOGNAME


It might be "cleaner" to just have repserver.pl extract the username from the mail header.

 

[rig108]

Thankyou for your post.

i gave some thought to your suggestion:

use procmail
| repserver.pl $LOGNAME

but i am not sure as in my home dir in .forward
i have:

"|/usr/bin/procmail -f-"

but i may then lose my procmail recipes, i.e., they won't be executed anymore, if i use | repserver.pl $LOGNAME

I was wondering if you knew anything about how I might create a filter in /etc/postfix/master.cf for my script.?

 

[rig108]

before the filter ideaa how about

k. Make rep.robin.net a virtual alias domain, with a wildcard. Point
that virtual alias to some local user (repserver@robin.net or whatever).
Have *that* user deliver to a pipe, via /etc/aliases.


or another way to put it




in some local domain on that server, add an alias for a user, say,
"repserver", that pipes to the program.
Then add rep.robin.net as a virtual alias domain, and add a
wildcard virtual alias that points to repserver@thatlocaldomain.

 

[rig108]

i think the best way is to set up a filter for repserver.pl
any ideas