Hi all! I've got the job to make accepting mails to an e-mail address a bit unusual. What's unusual. I will explain. When a mail arrives to the address it shouldn't appear in the /var/spool/mail immediately. Because there is daemon which scans the mailbox all the time and as soon as it sees a mail arriving it takes it from the box and passes it to a program which works on it and then sends the output to a database. But when the mail starts to arrive the system starts to write it to the disk immediately. ..And the daemon takes of , let's say the first 15 bytes (From, mal client etc.) but not whole letter. That's the problem because the body contains the datas to the program. The only solution I see is to move it temporarly to a /temp box or directory and as soon as the whole mail arrived pass it to the accurate mailbox so the daemon could catch it to delivery(the whole mail) to the program. Oh, yes, and all the headers have to be untouched so the From and Reply to and Envelope _must_ be the same as they arrived. The ASCII art to this (as I imagine) : mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> temporary box/dir(until closed) --> --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /--> daemon --> program --> DB2/ How can I do it with postfix (preferable) or sendmail or any other sendmail compatible MTA RTFMs and HOWTOs are welcomed. Thanx, Ago
