Configuring postfix is well-known to be the hardest, least intellectually stimulating task any IT person will ever pass off to a hapless subordinate. I, unfortunately, would seem to be that hapless subordinate. Eric recommended (and, in fact, convinced me) that I write a perl script to act as a delivery agent for postfix. This would offer grate flexibility, customizability, blah, blah, blah. Not to drag out the story, I got to a point where I realized I had a 200 line mess that didn’t work half of the time, wasn’t properly interacting with postfix, and needed another 1000 or so lines to do what was really required of it. So I dropped the project, and fell back to using mysql aliases, which looked to me like the easiest option when I need relatively dynamic mailing lists integrating with custom software that uses mysql.

Tags: email, postfix, Programming, Teque, TMS