Re: mail recipient listener

Thanks Juhan!

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:45 AM Juhan Aasaru <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Vijay
>
> Yes it is possible.
>
> Based on my experience one could solve it using a matcher and a mailet.
>
> See the list of ready made components:
> https://james.apache.org/mailet/standard/mailet-report.html
> From there you should find what you are looking for. Here is an example how
> to set up a matcher and a mailet:
>
>
> https://github.com/apache/james-project/blob/7dfc09c6ab05cd4ddc45b1ae6963c50c9460d527/examples/custom-mailets/src/main/resources/mailetcontainer.xml#L36
> The example uses custom matcher and a custom mailet but most common cases
> should be solvable using the standard ones.
>
> You only need a listener (and not a mailet) when you need to postpone your
> trigger event to the moment when the email actually gets stored to a
> mailbox.
>
> James also has SMTP hools but I’m not familiar with that part of the code
> base.
>
> I hope this helps
> Juhan
>
>
> On Sat, 16. Oct 2021 at 14:39, Vijay Venkatasubramani <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on a use case that I need to have an SMTP endpoint and
> > whenever an email is sent to a particular email address, a listener
> should
> > be invoked and process the message and call a different server. Such a
> > scenario is possible with Apache James? I have seen SMTP Hooks, I am not
> > sure if that serves the above requirements.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Vijay
> >
>