Re: Querying a DB to determine destination mailbox for an email using Procmail

[email protected] (Professional Software Engineering) Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:40:01 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.procmail
Organization	Professional Software Engineering
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Another approach which I haven't yet seen mentioned, is to have 
procmail deliver TO the perl/whatever script, and have THAT script 
deal with delivery (though it must also deal with locking).

Your perl script can do the db operation, get a mailbox name, then 
append the message to it.

:0
| /path/to/perlscript


Safer, you could follow this with fallback handling - if the 
perlscript returns a nonzero result code, procmail can deliver the 
message to a default mailbox:

:0w
| /path/to/perlscript

:0:
problem.mbx
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  Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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