[Dovecot] Running a script when a mail arrives

Tom savagephp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 13:21:08 EEST 2007


This sounds like a better task to do at the MTA level. I know Postfix 
has the capability to do such things. You can write a Perl script for 
example and make entries in the main.cf and/or master.cf files and 
postfix will pass the e-mail to that script during the rest of it's 
processing.

Tom

Dennis Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to execute a script when a mail arrives in a given user's 
> mailbox. Something like .dovecot.sieve.
> The reason I'm not using sieve itself is that I need to do stuff on mail 
> arrival, which is beyond sieve's features.
> 
> So is there a way to tell dovecot to run a script when a mail arrives in 
> a certain mailbox? Optionally a solution to forward the whole mail to a 
> script would be good too.
> 



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