Piping email to php script (Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier & MySQL)

[acoghlan]

I have used the article Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (CentOS 5.1) to build a number of servers now: I really like it and it's solved a number of issues - especially after implementing some of the tweaks in the comments on the article.

I am now trying to pipe certain emails to our support system, and I just cant get it to work.

The idea is that any email coming into issue-999@support.domain.com would route through to a specified php file and be processed in a specified way.

I am confident that the instructions in our support system will be correct in as much as specifying the syntax for getting their php script to work, however I cant get postfix to actually divert any email to the script.

At the moment I am using a catch all email account, using a forwarder @support.domain.com => address@support.domain.com. Regardless of what I try postfix always sends the inbound message to the forwarder. If I remove the forwarder entry from the table, then the message is bounced back to sender with an 'address not found' error.

Would you be able to give me a hint on how this is done? Better yet, if you could throw together another tutorial (because I know these things take no time at all to put together!) describing how to extend the excellent tutorial to piping email to different places, that would be brillient.

Regards

Andrew

[falko]

I think this can be achieved by using maildrop or a Postfix filter (see http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html ).

[acoghlan]

The system that I am using for support tickets (Eventum from MySQL) suggests these steps for postfix:

In /etc/mail/main.cf define

transport_maps = regexp:/etc/mail/transportregex
local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps $transport_maps

Be sure to include your domain in mydestination

mydestination = $transport_maps, $myhostname, eventum.example.com

In /etc/mail/master.cf define eventum transport:

eventum   unix  -       n       n       -       10       pipe
 flags=DRhu user=apache argv=/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/eventum/misc/route_${nexthop}.php

Create /etc/mail/transportregex file:

/note-.*@eventum.example.com/         eventum:notes
/issue-.*@eventum.example.com/        eventum:emails
/drafts-.*@eventum.example.com/       eventum:drafts

Run postmap on that file

postmap /etc/mail/transportregex

That doesnt seem to work at all with this virtual mail setup, and I am not sure that maildrop is the way to go either - surely this is a native postfix thing as there are many apps that make use of this type of functionality - I just cant work it into this server setup....