[ILUG] Programmatic mail sending with Postfix

[Niall O Broin]

Normally to send email from, say, a Perl program, I'll use a Perl module which 
basically talks SMTP to the sending mail server. Quite often (in fact, nearly 
always) the SMTP server is on the same physical box as the Perl program.

I also use a proprietary mail server called Communigate Pro (which is an 
EXCELLENT product BTW) which has a very neat module called the pipe module. 
To send messages you write files in RFC822 format and drop them into a 
specific directory. The PIPE module scans this directory periodically, and 
processes any files it finds with a  .sub  extension.

This is much more efficient than setting up an SMTP connection - we regularly 
use it to send 10s of thousands of messages to a mailing list. 

So the question is - is there any way of doing something similar with Postfix?


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Niall