Hi all,
I am working on a project where we need the mails from our mail server to our system.
For this i did some research on internet. And I came across two terms email piping and email forwarding.
Can anyone through some light on these two terms.
Thanks in advance
It is nowadays just the same.
Piping is forwarding the email to a program (like "filter" or "procmail" under *nix) which then filters/resend/copies/bounces it.
Forwarding (re)sends you mail to another adress. For sendmail-based systems that could be achieved by just putting the adress into a .forward-file. It is not really different from piping, as forwarding too requires a program on the mail-server/client that manages the forwarding.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean..."to our system" but piping from what I recall refers to automatically processing the email and using it as data in some way. For example you might take emails and use the body as part of a help-desk ticket.
Forwarding will just push the email to another place.