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simendsjo
Asked: 2011-12-11 01:18:03 +0800 CST

Piping in postfix/aliases [duplicate]

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Possible Duplicate:
How to configure postfix to pipe all incoming email to a script?

I'm having problems setting up simple piping for Redmine (or '|cat > /tmp/temp')

/etc/postfix/virtual:

[email protected] support

/etc/postfix/aliases:

support: "|/opt/redmine-1.2.2/processemail.sh"

main.cf

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_forwards.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains = myhost.com, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailboxes.cf

alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_database = $alias_maps

processemail.sh:

#!/bin/sh
/opt/redmine-1.2.2/extra/mail_handler/rdm-mailhandler.rb --url http://myhost.com --key f5obfctmGfqZWnOWNtR8 --project test --tracker support --allow-override tracker,project --verbose --unknown-user accept --no-permission-check

I've run newaliases; postmap virtual; postalias aliases; postalias virtual_alias; newalias - Yeah, probably overdoes it, but still misses the pouint :(

I've run newaliases and restarted postfix. Mail is delivered as usual, but nothing is added to /tmp

This is the only log entry saying anything about virtual.

Dec 10 04:08:41 master postfix/virtual[3112]:
A3F46AD1BF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=virtual, delay=0.4,
delays=0.38/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)

If I run cat someemail | processemail.sh in the shell, everything works. Processemail isn't even run by postfix.

Anyone knows what might be wrong? Or how I can turn on more logging?

postfix pipe aliases

2 Answers

  1. Pipe Alias are implemented by local(8) postfix agent.

    relay=virtual

    This means you are using the virtual(8) agent delivery to [email protected] but you need local(8) to fetch that email. Maybe you using virtual as your local_transport or you need to put in your 'virtual_alias_maps' file something like:

    [email protected] support@localhost

    This postfix-users thread and the postfix documentation may help.

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  2. You could use a simple alias in /etc/aliases (or wherever it is located):

    support: |/usr/local/bin/yourscripthandler

    Don't forget to run newaliases afterwards.

    Note that redirection (>/tmp/blah) is something handled by the shell, and AFAIK postfix won't invoke a shell to run your command; so yourscripthandler should be something like:

    #!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/theactualscripthandler >/tmp/dummy
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