[Dovecot] Delivery notifications

[Scott Silva]

on 7-24-2008 9:03 AM Brandon Keepers spake the following:
> I'm working on an application that is backed by Postfix 2.3.8 and 
> Dovecot 1.0.13, configured with virtual domains, for handling messaging.
> 
> I need to be able to send the notification (such as "You've received a 
> new message on SomeAwesomeService. Click here to check it out", It's 
> evil, I know) to a different email address, such as a mobile device. 
> Eventually, we want to do other things like clear web page caches when a 
> message is received, or sending IM notifications, but that's for another 
> day.
> 
> So basically, we want to notify our application whenever a new mail is 
> received, and it can do all the magical things that it needs to do.
> 
> I was hoping to get some feedback on the different approaches I'm 
> looking at. From what I can tell, there's not a way to deliver to 
> multiple virtual transports in postfix, so here's the options I see:
> 
> * Content filter
> I could set up a "content filter" that just delivers the mail to the 
> application, and then re-injects it back into postfix. This seems like 
> more work than the other options just because I have to worry about 
> re-injecting the message
> 
> * Intercept delivery
> Replace the dovecot deliver command with a custom one that calls the 
> dovecot deliver and then passes the message on to the application.  I've 
> written a little proof of concept for this and it seems to work, but 
> just seem shady.
> 
> * Sieve
> Dovecot supports Sieve, so I could just have a global sieve script that 
> sends the notifications.  This is definitely the solution I'm leaning 
> towards.
> 
> Are there any better options? Do you think this will have a significant 
> impact on performance? Am I crazy?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brandon
In my opinion (which is worth every penny you didn't pay for it) If I want 
notices of my new messages on a phone or other mobile device, I might as well 
just get the message sent or copied there.

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