Manipulating mailboxes

[Laszlo Zsolt Nagy]

Hi All,

I need to create a daemon that sits on a server and forwards some
e-mails. (Well not only that, it needs to change header information
before forwarding and also insert messages into a database). The mailbox
module is fine but I do not see a way to delete/add messages - it is
ready only. The other possiblity is IMAP4 but it is bad because my
program should not store passwords for all users. I can only see one
solution right now:

1. Make a copy of the mailbox
2. Truncate the mailbox
3. Process the messages in the copy and forward the e-mails by sending
out real e-mails.

But this looks so clumsy. Is there a way to delete/add messages to
mailboxes of different users, directly?

Thanks,

Laci 2.0

[Paul Rubin]

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <ga*****@geochemsource.com> writes:

But this looks so clumsy. Is there a way to delete/add messages to
mailboxes of different users, directly?

Why not use procmail or equivalent to drop incoming messages into
your daemon one at a time. Then use the smtp module to forward them
to their actual destinations.

[Maksim Kasimov]

change header information, insert messages into a database, delete/add messages, should not store passwords for all users, ... and any things else you wish to do - if your OS is UNIX - just forward mail messages of some users to your python script (you don't need to write a daemon for this)
All you need is to place file ".forward" in users home directory, and write like this:
|/path/myscript.py

and chmod the script:
chmod 777 /path/myscript.py

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:

Hi All,

I need to create a daemon that sits on a server and forwards some
e-mails. (Well not only that, it needs to change header information
before forwarding and also insert messages into a database). The mailbox
module is fine but I do not see a way to delete/add messages - it is
ready only. The other possiblity is IMAP4 but it is bad because my
program should not store passwords for all users. I can only see one
solution right now:

1. Make a copy of the mailbox
2. Truncate the mailbox
3. Process the messages in the copy and forward the e-mails by sending
out real e-mails.

But this looks so clumsy. Is there a way to delete/add messages to
mailboxes of different users, directly?

Thanks,

Laci 2.0

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Best regards,
Maksim Kasimov
mailto: ka*****@i.com.ua

[Laszlo Zsolt Nagy]

Maksim Kasimov wrote:

change header information, insert messages into a database, delete/add messages, should not store passwords for all users, ... and any things else you wish to do - if your OS is UNIX - just forward mail messages of some users to your python script (you don't need to write a daemon for this)
All you need is to place file ".forward" in users home directory, and write like this:
|/path/myscript.py

and chmod the script:
chmod 777 /path/myscript.py

Oh, fantastic. :-) Then I can open stdin and read the e-mail message
from there.
Thank you so much

Laci 2.0