piping email to a script

[rboschin]

Hi,
is there someone who could explain me how to pass an email to a script when it arrives?
I know how to do it with procmail but don't know about dropmail (which is the mailfilter used in ISPConfig).
I've tried to open the custom rules box end entering a line as 'to /path/to/the/script' but this doesn't work and the email gets sent into the inbox as always.

Any hints?

[till]

Do you talk about ispconfig 2 or ispconfig 3? This are two different software and they work completely different.

[rboschin]

I mean ISPConfig 3

[till]

Please try:

to "|/path/to/script"

[rboschin]

It doesn't seem to work.
I've tried with:
to "|/var/clients/client1/web1/.filter.php"
and with:
to "|/usr/bin/php -q /var/clients/client1/web1/.filter.php"
but the email continues to be inserted into the mailbox.
This script simply creates a file, and if I execute it by hand it does it, but not when an email arrives.

Maybe I should look at the mail log ? (where is it?)
or maybe I should verify if ispconfig really creates the dropmail filter, since version 3 is not completely stable??

rob

[abdi]

Originally Posted by till

Please try:

to "|/path/to/script"

Till, I have exactly this:

to "|/var/www/domain.com/web/includes/getEmail.php"

But it will not work for me, infact the I get the error

# tail -f /var/vmail/domain.com/billing/.sieve.log
sieve: info: started log at Oct 27 00:17:49.
main_script: line 5: error: unknown command 'to' (only reported once at first occurence).
main_script: error: validation failed.
sieve: info: started log at Oct 27 00:20:53.
main_scrip

[till]

You mix up courier maildrop and dovecot sieve email filter rules. The above rule is for a courier email server with maildrop filtering, but you use a dovecot server with sieve filtering. Maildrop and sieve are two different filter languages, so you can not use a command from courier on a dovecot server.

Dovecot and sieve that you use on your server do not support piping of emails to a shell script.

[abdi]

Till could then please give me the equivalent of that with Dovecot and Sieve as adviced. Thanks alot

[till]

Please see my answer above:

Dovecot and sieve that you use on your server do not support piping of emails to a shell script.