[CentOS] Receive, process and send email

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 16:59:26 UTC 2009


2009/9/21 Alan Hodgson <ahodgson at simkin.ca>

> On Sunday 20 September 2009, "CSB" <kjcsb at xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> > We wish to do the following:
> > 1. receive an email with an attachment
> > 2. process the email body to get some information from it
> > 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information
> > derived from step 2. The email will include the attachment received in
> > step 1
> >
> > I'm not sure where to start with this one so any suggestions would be
> > appreciated.
>
> If it's a minor amount of processing, you can just pipe it to a script from
> procmail or even straight from the MTA. I don't really like that mechanism
> though - too prone to produce bounces in the case of long processing times
> or errors. It's better to dump them in a Maildir and use it as a queue for
> a polling script.
>
> Perl in particular has a bunch of libraries available to correctly parse
> MIME messages and extract addresses and attachments and stuff. Don't write
> your own parser.
>

talkin' about perl, i remember once i used something called milter for
things like this .

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