Help - piping email to PHP program.

[camperjohn64]

I need someone's help setting up a way to pipe incoming emails from *@uploads.mydomain.com to a php program

The problem is, I don't know how to set up emails and subdomains in postfix through webmin. I don't know how to tell postfix to handle emails from a subdomain and the documentation is not doing as I expect.

Once the uploads.mydomain.com subdomain is setup, I can handle getting it to the PHP script, I just don't know how to tell postfix to handle the domain, and the subdomain.

Does anyone have experience with Webmin and postfix? Or even just postfix?



- I am using procmail and postfix
- I have set up the DNS to handle the subdomain uploads.mydomain.com
- I have successfully gotton ALL emails to go to my php script (yay)

- I am UNABLE to get emails from the SUBDOMAINS to go to my php script.

Here is the successful "redirect to PHP script", but I don't know how to tell postfix to handle the main domain and subdomain. What is a postfix virtual domain? What is transport mapping? Are users considered to be aliases? Hmmm..


I have one day to figure this out, it's a small detail and I'm sure I'm missing something.

[Babaganoosh]

Are you actually receiving emails at [email protected]?

[camperjohn64]

Are you actually receiving emails at [email protected]?

Yes. It will be something like [email protected]

This will be for uploading from the iPhone/mobile.

My old server had CPanel on it, and it was a point and click deal and it was working fine, but I didn't want to shell out $2000+ for Cpanel on the new server.

You know something, I have all the configuration files from the old server. Where would I look to find out how to configure it? I'm a good programmer, and a lousy admin.

[Babaganoosh]

Forgot all about this thread. Hope you got it going. If not try this

check postfix main.cf and make sure your subdomain is listed. I think it needs to be defined in virtal_alias_domains. never tried it with a subdomain so not too sure on this

/etc/postfix/virtual
[email protected] babaganoosh

then edit your /etc/aliases
babaganoosh: "|/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/your/script"

Then run the following commands
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
newaliases

This works on Ubuntu 10.04

Edit: You do not need to set up a system user for your alias.

[k0nr4d]

alternatively you can have php check a pop3 email account with a catchall configured. There are classes available that do this for you.

[camperjohn64]

Forgot all about this thread. Hope you got it going. If not try this

check postfix main.cf and make sure your subdomain is listed. I think it needs to be defined in virtal_alias_domains. never tried it with a subdomain so not too sure on this

/etc/postfix/virtual
[email protected] babaganoosh

then edit your /etc/aliases
babaganoosh: "|/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/your/script"

Then run the following commands
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
newaliases

This works on Ubuntu 10.04

Edit: You do not need to set up a system user for your alias.

I am going to try this on the weekend and let you know how it goes. It's the last thing that is holding me back from my iPhone version of my website.