Sendmail calling a script on inbound mail
- From: "Andy Ford" <Andy.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:45:20 -0000
First of all I will apologise to those who believe this mail is misplaced in a
Sun admin group - but it may be related.
I am trying to get sendmail to call a Perl script. To do this I have ...
1. modified /etc/aliases with: testUser: "|/usr/local/bin/mailHandler"
2. run newaliases
3. run /usr/lib/sendmail -bv testUser which returns...
"|/usr/local/bin/mailHandler"... deliverable: mailer prog, user
|/usr/local/bin/mailHandler
4. sent a mail using the Perl module Mail::Sendmail from the host to itself.
------------ Mail::Sendmail script -----------------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sendMail();
sub sendMail {
use Mail::Sendmail;
my $mail;
$mail{To} = 'testUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$mail{From} = 'root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$mail{Smtp} = '<10.24.2.1>';
$mail{Subject} = "TEST";
$mail{Message} = "TEST";
sendmail %mail;
}
-----------------------------------------------------
My questions are...
- Will it cause an issue if the box isn't part of a domain?
- How the hell do I get it to work?
I assume I would send the mail to testUser@localhost. As I'm not using a
domain, is that correct?
I have queried google but not found any useful docs on how to achieve it and
what to do with the numerous error messages sent to the root account like ...
The original message was received at Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:38:57 GMT
from mymailserver [10.24.2.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<testUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.2 <testUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Host unknown (Name server:
telindus.co.uk: host not found)
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Andy
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