Email to (MySQL) Database?

[dandart]

Is there a utility that I can use to forward emails to a database?
I want to gather emails sent to my server, and then stick them in a DB:

Example email:
From: John Smith <jsmith@example.com>
To: Rob Dean <robd@mydomain.com>
Subject: Example
This is a test.

would write a DB entry in "email" table:
from: jsmith@example.com
rcpt: robd
subject: Example
body: This is a test.

I have an MTA (Postfix). Is this all I need to gather incoming emails?

Cheers
Dan

[Irithori]

One could imagine to write a perl/python/C/<whatever> program, that acts as a smtp server and writes to a SQL DB.
This would be a big project.

Question is: Why would you want to have emails in a SQL DB at all?
There are DBs, that are specialized in dealing with emails:
POP3 servers, or better: IMAP servers.

These are already available, stable and documented.
For example here:
Postfix Virtual Hosting With LDAP Backend And With Dovecot As IMAP/POP3 Server On Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Server 8.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

[dandart]

I don't want to do that, I have set up my system to locally email people inside using SQL. Can't I link it to the outside?

I can send messages out (using mail() ), but not in (which is what I would like to achieve here).

Cheers