Hi everyone,
I need to be able to build a perl script that can easily periodically check an email inbox for an incoming message, and read each message various items. Still using scripting, I'll need to be able to either create mailboxes or aliases without restarting the service (preferably), then be able to delete those same mailboxes/aliases later on. I also need to be able to handle multiple domain names. From all I can tell, postfix will do this for me, but I wanted to check with you all first to see if your experience has been the same.

When reading email, it'd be great if it was command-line or something that I can easily code into the perl script, and something that isn't interractive. So for instance if the command line utility brings up a text-rendered screen not unlike vi, that would be bad. It'd would almost be better to have it work like the "cat" command type of thing. Any ideas?

-TP

Your question is a bit disjointed.

First, you can easily use Perl to create a script to read mail, and process it. But what's on the back end is meaningless, for the most part. Perl can read IMAP, POP3, and other mail server types...once you get the message in, you can process it however you want.

Back end actions (like creating/deleting users), will need a different script. You can do it with Perl, or with a shell-script. The actions you take will be different for sendmail than they are postfix, but either will work, just the commands will be different.

So basically: either postfix or sendmail will work for what you want, and you CAN write a Perl script to do it.

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Yep, that answers it, sorry it was a bit disjointed now having re-read it, but yeah that's what I needed to find out. Thank you.

-TP