[Novalug] Postfix Question

[Mike Shade]

Matthew,

You'll probably want to go with option 2, but use a MySQL backend to hold
your info.  Check out this for the bare essentials, and do some googling
around how to manipulate what you need to change frequently.

http://www.smartcgi.com/docs/postfix/howto/postfix-mysql.html

Also maybe check out Postfix.Admin, a web front end, to see how they do it.
I realize you'll want to do this programmatically, but their admin panel
might give you some good ideas of how to structure your implementation.

-- Mike

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM, matthew wollenweber <mwollenweber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a custom email service that needs to forward emails. The
> forwarding rules change quite often. At present I have two strategies that
> I'm considering:
>
>    1. Connect to the mail server, grab the messages, and forward them.
>    2. Update the postfix virtual table and let postfix do the work
>
>
> With 1. I'm afraid I'll improperly parse a message and get all screwed up.
> With 2, I have to do a lot of updates to the virtual table -- say once every
> 5 to 15 minutes. In that case, do I need to worry about postfix not being
> able to read the file and missing/dropping emails?
>
> Thanks for any help. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Matthew Wollenweber
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