Python : Postfix stdin

Question

I want to make postfix send all emails to a python script that will scan the emails.

However, how do I pipe the output from postfix to python ?

What is the stdin for Python ?

Can you give a code example ?

Answer 1

Rather than calling sys.stdin.readlines() then looping and passing the lines to email.FeedParser.FeedParser().feed() as suggested by Michael, you should instead pass the file object directly to the email parser.

The standard library provides a conveinience function, email.message_from_file(fp), for this purpose. Thus your code becomes much simpler:

import email
msg = email.message_from_file(sys.stdin)