[TriLUG] Procmail-only e-mail address

[Warren Myers]

That's what I would've suggested, Brian :)


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Brian Henning <bhenning at pineinst.com> wrote:

> Ha!
>
> I just discovered that aliases themselves can feed to a program, and I can
> skip the whole procmail part altogether.
>
> I think that's the approach I want.
>
> Comments still welcome, though!
> ~B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Henning
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 9:35 AM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: Procmail-only e-mail address
>
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I'm wanting to set up a mail sink that receives and processes "contact us"
> e-mails into a CRM database.
>
> I'm figuring I can use procmail to feed e-mails with the right "To:"
> header to the parser.
>
> My question/curiosity is about how to set it all up without a "real"
> mailbox, because I think Postfix won't even get as far as handing off to
> procmail if it doesn't recognize the recipient address, right?
>
> I figure I could:
>
> 1) Forget about it and just create an account
> 2) Alias "contact" to root
> 3) ???
> 4) PROFIT!!!  (sorry, just couldn't help myself)
>
> So yeah, I'm wondering about other options that will tell Postfix "yes,
> accept mail for this user [and feed it to procmail]" but without having an
> actual user that exists.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Brian
>
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