I'm trying to copy all incoming mail to a local FIFO file for special purpose
processing by a Java program. I don't know the best way to do this.
I tried to modify the simple filter script example in the documentation to this
:
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#!/bin/sh
INSPECT_DIR=/var/spool/myFifoDir
EX_TEMPFAIL=75
cd $INSPECT_DIR || { echo cannot cd to fifo dir; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }
cat > myFifo || {echo cannot write to fifo file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }
exit $?
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I can execute this successfully on the command line, but I haven't been able to
run it successfully from Postfix. It doesn't matter whether the destination
file
is a normal file or a FIFO. Nothing shows up in the logs. I have no indication
the script is running. I copied the script into the queue_directory and have it
entered in master.cf as :
pipefilter unix - n n - 1 pipe flags=Rq user=filteruser argv=pipefilter -vvv --
I've read through the man(5) master page and googled for examples
unsuccessfully. I'm sure I'm doing something pathetically ignorant. The argv
command line seems a good suspect, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how
to fix it. I've spent more than a day working on this, so any suggestions as to
how to make this work or a better way to accomplish the same thing (like
writing
it to a socket) would be very much appreciated.
Thanks much,
