Simple "mail server" only using Apache?

Question posted by: Danigan (Newbie) on April 21st, 2008 06:41 PM

Is there a way I can set up Apache to put incoming emails into a folder as individual text files (MIME, text, or I guess it'd be cool if Apache has a module to throw it into a database like mySQL with header info already parsed) with no actual complicated mail server installed? I don't need POP3, IMAP, or even SMTP. The idea is that I'll then write a program myself (probably in c++ and running on a crontab) that parses the emails and if it finds a certain line of text it will do something and then delete the email. Basically I'm designing a very lite mail server but for my own very very specific purposes. I have never touched mail serving, but I assume this can be done fairly easily. If you know of some reading I can do or Apache modules to Google, let me know and I'll read up on them myself. Thanks for the comments!

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