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I have to write an application and link it to a new postfix or exim4 mail server, this application must fully read and process all incoming messages. As optional requirement it may filter some messages according to mail content. After that I need a very common mail-server.

What is the best approach for that? Is is possibile to attach an agent/filter to a MTA like postfix or exim4?

Just for clarification, this will be used for automated mail-exchange between systems and this application should read all incoming email to store some state vars in a database. However, the mail exchange will be done by standard pop3/smtp protocol, so I prefer to use a standard mailserver. I can consider both Exim or Postfix.

Tobia
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The keyword that you look for is milter (see Wikipedia). This is a standardized interface to program plugins into most open-source SMTP servers.

(Also, please note that furhter programming questions re. said milter are better directed to stackoverflow.com sister site.)

kubanczyk
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  • You were too fast... I have to wait 2 mins :-D – Tobia Nov 21 '15 at 09:51
  • Where can I find some informations how to develope a new exim4 milter? Seems that "milter" is not supported by exim4 but only from sendmail or postfix. – Tobia Dec 19 '15 at 07:26