I've currently got a Postfix service running which sends and receives emails fine. I'm trying to alias the "test" address to run a PHP script. See excerpt of aliases file below.
test: "| php -q /var/blahblahblah/php/test.php"
Here is the contents of test.php. This seems to run correctly in command line.
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$file = fopen("/tmp/postfixtest", "a");
fwrite($file, "Script successfully ran at ".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."\n");
fclose($file);
?>
Below is an excerpt of the mail.log showing the main lines of interest.
postfix/qmgr[3427]: 02BE9472A: from=<sender@email.com>, size=1681, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
postfix/virtual[3435]: 02BE9472A: to=<test@domain.com>, relay=virtual, delay=0.45, delays=0.42/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
postfix/qmgr[3427]: 02BE9472A: removed
Note the delivered to maildir bit in brackets. Is this supposed to say something like "delivered to script"?
All the files are set to 777 permissions for now and the aliases files are kept updated by using sudo newaliases
It seems as if the PHP script isn't being called properly but I get no 'errors' in any of the logs.
Has anyone experienced or fixed this before?
test: "|php -q /path/to/script.php"Michael Berkowski 2012-04-04 02:55
from man aliases
|command
Mail is piped into command. Commands that contain special char-
acters, such as whitespace, should be enclosed between double
quotes. See local(8) for details of delivery to command.
When the command fails, a limited amount of command output is
mailed back to the sender. The file /usr/include/sysexits.h
defines the expected exit status codes. For example, use "|exit
67" to simulate a "user unknown" error, and "|exit 0" to imple-
ment an expensive black hole.
so I would expect this is what is meant:
test: |"php -q /var/blahblahblah/php/test.php"
newaliasesornewaliases.postfix, or just restart postfix - Michael Berkowski 2012-04-04 02:54