Re: how to pipe mail to external program?
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:33 -0700, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:03 -0500, Tuna Sundae wrote: Hi, when I used to use sendmail, I used aliasname: |/path/to/app in /etc/aliases to pipe mail to a program. Now, I used postfix with cyrus' deliver as the delivery mechanism. How do I have cyrus pipe certain aliases to applications?: you asked the question the other day - I think that you use the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary supplied by your postfix installation, much the same as you would if you were using sendmail but I think in a way, that begs your question...wouldn't you use postfix aliasmaps much like you used aliases in sendmail? Are you sure that this is a cyrus question? That's the thing... I can't get postfix to check the alias map before giving the mail to cyrus' deliver. So I was hoping there was a cyrus way to do this. Is anyone using postfix/cyrus and having it first look at /etc/aliases before delivering to 'deliver'? --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: how to pipe mail to external program?
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 22:29, Tuna Sundae wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:33 -0700, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the thing... I can't get postfix to check the alias map before giving the mail to cyrus' deliver. So I was hoping there was a cyrus way to do this. Is anyone using postfix/cyrus and having it first look at /etc/aliases before delivering to 'deliver'? First, this is definitely a postfix question belonging on the postfix mailing list. Second, you most likely don't have /etc/aliases in your postfix alias_maps configuration. a default install of postfix uses /etc/postfix/aliases, but /etc/aliases can be added by editing main.cf (read the postfix documentation on postfix.org, or post to the postfix-users mailing list for more assistance) Third, unless you have a REAL need to use 'deliver' you should be using LMTP to inject mail into cyrus, as it provides better performance. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Edward Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website http://www.outoforder.cc/ --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: how to pipe mail to external program?
Tuna Sundae wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:33 -0700, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:03 -0500, Tuna Sundae wrote: Hi, when I used to use sendmail, I used aliasname: |/path/to/app in /etc/aliases to pipe mail to a program. Now, I used postfix with cyrus' deliver as the delivery mechanism. How do I have cyrus pipe certain aliases to applications?: you asked the question the other day - I think that you use the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary supplied by your postfix installation, much the same as you would if you were using sendmail but I think in a way, that begs your question...wouldn't you use postfix aliasmaps much like you used aliases in sendmail? Are you sure that this is a cyrus question? That's the thing... I can't get postfix to check the alias map before giving the mail to cyrus' deliver. So I was hoping there was a cyrus way to do this. Is anyone using postfix/cyrus and having it first look at /etc/aliases before delivering to 'deliver'? I ran into a similar problem recently. It was explained to me that if you explicity define the transport for lmtp in transports you then disable piping to commands in Postifx (and a few other issues). What you need to do is comment out that definition in transports (presuming this is the case here) and define: mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp (modify as appropriate for your system) And then the pipe-to-commands should work. There are more specifics about why this is so - but that's what solved this for me. Forrest --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
