Create Email and Point to a Script or Parse Email File [closed]

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How do I get Postfix to deliver ALL mail to a custom script?

I've followed this series of tuts on rackspace and have set up a Ubuntu Lucid email server. Now, I can send emails from command line and receive emails to a file in /var/mail. What I'd like to do is either

• direct incoming emails to a script to parse the email, or
• find a script that will parse that file in /var/mail

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm not finding what I need through Google. Thanks!

Answer 1

As you're using Postfix, have a look at pipe(8). This is configured in master.cf.

Pipe is a delivery agent designed to handle mail accepted by smtpd which is then passed to an external command rather than delivered straight to a file.