https://lloydroc.github.io/tags/postfix/Recent content in Postfix on Lloyd Rochester's Geek BlogHugoenCopyright © 2025, Lloyd Rochester.Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:56:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/unix/process-mail-script-postfix/Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:56:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/unix/process-mail-script-postfix/<p>Updated Feb 7, 2020</p> <p>After thinking about this post more, it&rsquo;s true you can process emails with a script in Postfix. The post provides the right answer to the <strong>wrong question</strong>!! You can certainly process emails with Postfix but it&rsquo;s hard, brittle, reduces performance and really isn&rsquo;t recommended. What is better is to have a client program that reads the mail and does what you desire. This client can be put on a cron job, triggered or run however you want. The client is very flexible and so many different programming languages support them. This gives a lot of power to mark emails read, manage folders, etc &hellip; It&rsquo;s just a cleaner, better, easier to use and test architecture than having a script in Postfix. So I&rsquo;ll leave this up, but, I wouldn&rsquo;t use it unless there is some reason I cannot think of how it would be better.</p>