Getting incoming mail¶
In your code¶
Mailbox instances have a method named get_new_mail
;
this method will gather new messages from the server.
Using the Django Admin¶
From the ‘Mailboxes’ page in the Django Admin, check the box next to each of the mailboxes you’d like to fetch e-mail from, select ‘Get new mail’ from the action selector at the top of the list of mailboxes, then click ‘Go’.
Using a cron job¶
You can easily consume incoming mail by running the management command named
getmail
(optionally with an argument of the name of the mailbox you’d like
to get the mail for).:
python manage.py getmail
Receiving mail directly from Exim4 or Postfix via a pipe¶
Django Mailbox’s processincomingmessage
management command accepts, via
stdin
, incoming messages.
You can configure Postfix or Exim4 to pipe incoming mail to this management
command to import messages directly without polling.
You need not configure mailbox settings when piping-in messages,
mailbox entries will be automatically created matching the e-mail address to
which incoming messages are sent,
but if you would like to specify the mailbox name,
you may provide a single argument to the processincmingmessage
command
specifying the name of the mailbox you would like it to use
(and, if necessary, create).
Receiving Mail from Exim4¶
To configure Exim4 to receive incoming mail, start by adding a new router configuration to your Exim4 configuration like:
django_mailbox:
debug_print = 'R: django_mailbox for $localpart@$domain'
driver = accept
transport = send_to_django_mailbox
domains = mydomain.com
local_parts = emailusernameone : emailusernametwo
Make sure that the e-mail addresses you would like handled by Django Mailbox are not handled by another router; you may need to disable some existing routers.
Change the contents of local_parts
to match a colon-delimited list of
usernames for which you would like to receive mail.
For example, if one of the e-mail addresses targeted at this machine is
jane@example.com
,
the contents of local_parts
would be, simply jane
.
Note
If you would like messages addressed to any account @mydomain.com
to be delivered to django_mailbox, simply omit the above local_parts
setting. In the same vein, if you would like messages addressed to
any domain or any local domains, you can omit the domains
setting
or set it to +local_domains
respectively.
Next, a new transport configuration to your Exim4 configuration:
send_to_django_mailbox:
driver = pipe
command = /path/to/your/environments/python /path/to/your/projects/manage.py processincomingmessage
user = www-data
group = www-data
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
Like your router configuration, transport configuration should be altered to
match your environment.
First, modify the command
setting such that it points at the proper
python executable
(if you’re using a virtual environment, you’ll want to direct that at the
python executable in your virtual environment)
and project manage.py
script.
Additionally, you’ll need to set user
and group
such that
they match a reasonable user and group
(on Ubuntu, www-data
suffices for both).
Receiving mail from Postfix¶
Although I have not personally tried using Postfix for this,
Postfix is capable of delivering new mail to a script using pipe
.
Please consult the
Postfix documentation for pipe here.
You may want to consult the above Exim4 configuration for tips.