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My goal is to add emails to a DB and then send them on to the user at a different domain.

My mail server is hosted elsewhere using my domain, ([email protected]). TO get this working, I set up postfix on a server that gets mail for sub-domain, say, "process.example.com". I followed these instructions to get the PHP piping working.

I have set this up using a PHP script that parses the email, logs it, then re-builds the email and sends it on. My issue is that some messages do not look great after being parsed and reassembled. I realized I might be doing this the hard way. This needs to take an email from [email protected], call my milter for processing, change the TO to [email protected] and send it on its way.

I have read about several postfix process like transport, relay and canonical. I am thinking I need to use one of these, but have not instructions. I also am not sure that my milter will be called if I use one of the processes like relay or canonical.

Can someone give me some help with my postfix config...

As requested, here is output for postconf -n

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
default_privs = apache
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
local_recipient_maps = 
luser_relay = catchall
mail_owner = postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
milter_default_action = accept
milter_protocol = 2
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, process.example.com
mynetworks = 168.100.189.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8
mynetworks_style = host
myorigin = $myhostname
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpd_milters = inet:127.0.0.1:8891
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
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  • Wait, you are using PHP milter to parse email....? Very, very hardcore :)
    – masegaloeh
    Dec 18, 2014 at 7:28
  • All my controller and views are already created there. It is also what I am most familiar with. You making fun of me? ;>)
    – Thom
    Jan 14, 2015 at 22:49
  • No, it's not about PHP, it's about milter. I am not familiar with milter as it comes from sendmail. But you managed to write milter with PHP. How awesome is it :)
    – masegaloeh
    Jan 15, 2015 at 0:15

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Every email received by postfix always be passed to milter. So you shouldn't have worry about it.

To do rewriting, you can use recipient_canonical_maps here.

In main.cf add this parameter

recipient_canonical_maps  = hash:/etc/postfix/process2main

And in /etc/postfix/process2main add this line

[email protected] [email protected]

This will rewrite recipient from [email protected] to [email protected]

See this page to get how canonical works

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  • I like the approach and am trying to test it. But I will now need another way to pipe my messages to my script. I was using catchall in /etc/aliases. If I take the approach above, how to I pipe all messages to my php script? I was using "catchall: |"php -q /home/web/www.example.com/public_html/index.php emailparse"
    – Thom
    Jan 14, 2015 at 22:46
  • for clarification: did you replace milter with catchall pipe script?
    – masegaloeh
    Jan 15, 2015 at 2:58
  • Showing my ignorance in this area, I had it set up as a catchall, but called it a milter. Now trying to make it a filter using this page. blog.thecodingmachine.com/content/… I have the canonical map working like you describe above, but cannot get it to run the script. I am trying to test this using sendmail -t -v on the same machine. I can see in maillog that it is invoking postfix, but nothing about the filter.
    – Thom
    Jan 15, 2015 at 15:17
  • I am so close. Using the recipient_bcc as described in the link above, I am now able to send messages from the command line, the recipient_canonical alters the TO address and the script parses the message. BUT, when I send a message from my desktop to the server I see the message being processed in the maillot, the script does its thing, the maillot says it is relaying to my mail host (identical line in log to CLI), yet I never receive the email message.
    – Thom
    Jan 15, 2015 at 22:23
  • This worked. Still having issues sending email from the box, but that seems like a new question. Thanks for your answer.
    – Thom
    Jan 16, 2015 at 17:22

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