email Piping

[fridaystreet]

Hi,

I'm not sure if I'm going mad as I think this should be a releatively easy thing to do, but I can't for the life of me seem to get an email pipe working.

I'm trying to setup an email address that will pipe to a php script. I quickly realised the ispcp admin interface doesn't seem to allow for the entry of a pipe to a forward.

If i try and enter something like "|/path to my php script" in the forward filed it complains the format is incorrect.

So I have tried just configuring it in postfix adding the command to the /etc/aliases with a local identifier

signals ""|/path to my php script"

then adding an actual email mapping in the virtual mappings file /etc/postfix/vhcs2/virtual


signals@mydomain.com signal

no joy it just says unknow user in the log file and mail delviery error. If I setup a forward from within the ispcp gui to an email address, the forwar works and is added to the /etc/postfix/vhcs2/virtual. if I then try changing that manually to point to my local mapping I get the unknown user error. I've tried creating the signals user as a local user but still no joy. Tried a procmail filter and that doesn't even get picked up.

I've searched high and low on email piping with ispcp and there is absolutely no articles anyway as far as I can see. Seems it's a big subject for all other control panels.

Can someone please tell me how I can set this up with ispcp? also is it in the plan to add this functionality to the control panel as per other control panels?

Many thanks in advance
Paul