Re: [Exim] Need to do something a little silly

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Robinson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This isn't 100% exim related, but figured you guys are as likely to know as
> anybody else. The following assumes exim and qpopper working with mailboxes in
> the form domainname/username in /var/spool/virtual_mail (I'm doing lookups in
> MySQL).
>
> OK, basically I need to be able to arbitrarily pick an mbox, take all the
> messages inside it, and deliver those messages by SMTP to a remote machine. The
> IP of the remote machine will be dynamic (there are other mechanisms to kick
> this off).
>
> Originally I considered wirting something in Perl using Mail::Box and Net::SMTP
> but then realised my headers would get lost if I wasn't careful. I'm just up for
> ideas on how to deliver a message after exim has considered it delivered.
> Without loosing POP3 functionality. Has anybody tried doing anything like this
> at all?

There is a utility called 'formail' (NOT formmail), that will take each
message in a standard berkely format mailbox and do something with it
(eg, pass it to a pipe)..

>
> Does it sound sensible to pick up the mbox, rip out the info, add some more
> headers and tell exim to deliver mail to machine 'X' regardless of what the MX
> for that domain says? Or am I going mad?
>
>

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