How would I read mail from Dovecot as it comes in from a NodeJS app











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I have NodeJS and Dovecot installed on a linux server with a domain name and some other things running on that server. I am currently interested in reading mail from the Dovecot installation.



It saves messages to a file "/var/mail/nobody" and I can confirm it is being received.



I would now like to take it a step further and have that file being piped to a running NodeJS process which can take the incoming data and do something dynamic with it.



I would like something scalable otherwise I would simple poll.



What are my reasonable options here?






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  • First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
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I have NodeJS and Dovecot installed on a linux server with a domain name and some other things running on that server. I am currently interested in reading mail from the Dovecot installation.



It saves messages to a file "/var/mail/nobody" and I can confirm it is being received.



I would now like to take it a step further and have that file being piped to a running NodeJS process which can take the incoming data and do something dynamic with it.



I would like something scalable otherwise I would simple poll.



What are my reasonable options here?






node.js linux email dovecot







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  • First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
    – David C. Rankin
    Nov 10 at 6:10















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I have NodeJS and Dovecot installed on a linux server with a domain name and some other things running on that server. I am currently interested in reading mail from the Dovecot installation.



It saves messages to a file "/var/mail/nobody" and I can confirm it is being received.



I would now like to take it a step further and have that file being piped to a running NodeJS process which can take the incoming data and do something dynamic with it.



I would like something scalable otherwise I would simple poll.



What are my reasonable options here?






node.js linux email dovecot







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I have NodeJS and Dovecot installed on a linux server with a domain name and some other things running on that server. I am currently interested in reading mail from the Dovecot installation.



It saves messages to a file "/var/mail/nobody" and I can confirm it is being received.



I would now like to take it a step further and have that file being piped to a running NodeJS process which can take the incoming data and do something dynamic with it.



I would like something scalable otherwise I would simple poll.



What are my reasonable options here?






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  • First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
    – David C. Rankin
    Nov 10 at 6:10




















  • First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
    – David C. Rankin
    Nov 10 at 6:10


















First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 10 at 6:10






First edit /etc/postfix/aliases and change the alias for nobody: root to the user the nodejs app runs as. That will give the nodejs app access to the mail file. You are attempting to use nodejs as the MUA (Mail User Agent). Additionally, you may want to edit your title to make it clear that you want to read from the nodejs app as it comes in from Dovecot, not the other way around.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 10 at 6:10



















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