Reacties op: Setup Postfix to forward incoming email to PHP

Door: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:32:24 +0000

Great post. helped a lot.

one tip / suggestion.
look at the server hostname.
in mij case de hostname was “server”.
so the postfix aliasses lookd for incomming mail like: php_script@server.yourdomain.com

i had to create an forwarder (in mysql)
to redirect php_script@server.yourdomain.com -> php_script@yourdomain.com

Door: Ben

Ben — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:33:25 +0000

Please do not use “sudo vi /yourfile”. God kills a kity each time you do so.
Set $EDITOR and use “sudoedit /yourfile” instead.

Door: Aleksi Räsänen

Aleksi Räsänen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:03:09 +0000

I had a problem with postfix to run my script, because postfix runned my script using username “nobody” and group was “nogroup”.

I had chmodded my script path & script itself to 775 and my group was set to ‘postfix’ and it failed – no any errors etc. anywhere (at least I had not found them).

When I changed my script path to be readable/writeable to group nogroup all went fine.

This problem happened on Debian. I don’t know why scripts are running with nobody/nogroup but anyway now it works. Just for info if anybody have same problem

Door: jsd

jsd — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:30:21 +0000

Thanks for this, very helpful!

Door: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:18:04 +0000

Goodmorning Martin,

don’t know if WordPress changed the code you typed, but i think it should be

tincho2: “| php -q /etc/postfix/emaillistener.php”

Door: martin

martin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:15:59 +0000

Hi Jeroem, i tried the example but using virtual aliases (/etc/postfix/virtual) and it did not work. It keeping saying that the user does not exist. Any ideas?

tincho2@mydomain.com tincho2@email2.mydomain.com, “| php -q /etc/postfix/emaillistener.php”

Thanks! Martin.

Door: tecs

tecs — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:35:26 +0000

Thanks I got it to work. Appears that I was editing the wrong alias file. I was using the /etc/aliases instead of /etc/postfix/aliases. When I put the php script in both it worked fine. Thanks for this post!

Door: jeroensmeets

jeroensmeets — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:12:35 +0000

@tecs, better to give it a safe place. But as long as you point the /etc/aliases line to the file, it should work. So something along the lines of

email+to+redirect: “| php -q /home/username/Desktop/script.php”

should work.

Door: tecs

tecs — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:46:09 +0000

I have the aliases file setup the same as you have it here and the permissions set correctly, but when i send an email nothing happens. No errors or anything. Do I have to have the script in a certain place? Its just on my desktop right now.

Door: jeroensmeets

jeroensmeets — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:34:39 +0000

@Steve — thanks for the link.