How do I read/retrieve emails received by local postfix, through python [closed]

Question

I am using postfix in my production server which will receive all the emails related to mydomain.com In this context, I want to forward only emails related to few users to different email addresses. By which I mean, lets say I am a super user(superuser@mydomain.com). I want to forward all my emails(all mails with to:superuser@mydomain.com) to my personal email id: superuser@gmail.com. So I think I would some programming logic is needed here. So I want to write a custom python script which should read the postfix email inbox and forward all new emails depending on the said criteria. Can I do this? I heard about .forward file in the postfix arena. Can I use that to achieve the same(by totally bypassing pythonic solution)?

Answer 1

Procmail is the solution for mail filtering. You can call python scripts from your .procmailrc if you need more scripting.

Answer 2

It sounds like you just need to set up aliases, not script anything.

On most Unix/Linux systems, you simply add aliases to your /etc/aliases file:

superuser:                 marc,webmaster@my-site.com

then run:

newaliases

Then mail sent to "superuser" would go to "marc" and "webmaster@my-site.com" instead.

here's a tutorial, and here's the postfix 'aliases' man page.