how to pipe mail to external program?

[Tuna Sundae]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:33 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:03 -0500, Tuna Sundae wrote:
> > Hi, when I used to use sendmail, I used "aliasname: |/path/to/app" in
> > /etc/aliases to pipe mail to a program. Now, I used postfix with
> > cyrus' "deliver" as the delivery mechanism. How do I have cyrus pipe
> > certain aliases to applications?:
> >
> ----
> you asked the question the other day - I think that you use
> the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary supplied by your postfix installation,
> much the same as you would if you were using sendmail but I think in a
> way, that begs your question...wouldn't you use postfix aliasmaps much
> like you used aliases in sendmail? Are you sure that this is a cyrus
> question?

That's the thing... I can't get postfix to check the alias map before
giving the mail to cyrus' deliver. So I was hoping there was a cyrus
way to do this.

Is anyone using postfix/cyrus and having it first look at /etc/aliases
before delivering to 'deliver'?
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