Re: Parse an email message for content

Ed, Thanks for the reply. Actually, I have the module version and the cgi version of PHP running on my server. I have another script that I run daily, but that is a different beast with my own content. Also, I know about egrep and preg_egrep, great functions. However, I am looking for an idea on how to actually read the email files. I have been reading about "fread" for reading the file and then I have considered doing an "fseek" to start reading where the email headers stop, and then "explode"ing the contents of the file separated by the "=====" delimiter that comes in the message. However, I do not know where to start. Any pointers? Thanks, Jonathan Duncan "Ed Lazor" <ELazor@providence.org> wrote in message news:C8891DEC2698D411A91B00508BF9898806E11731@phsormsg04.phsor.org... > You'll need to have a cgi version of PHP to use in cronjobs and you'll need > to use http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-grep.php > > Good luck =) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Duncan [mailto:jonathan@nacnud.com] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:48 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Parse an email message for content > > > I am trying to display on a web page a daily message from a mailing list > that I am on. What I want is to have a script run on my server each day at > a certain time that reads the mail file that contains the daily email > message, takes the Article Titles and makes them the link text to be used > with the link that is provided and then have the article abstract listed > below. > > Can anyone point me in the correct direction on how I can learn how to do > this? > > Thank you very much, > Jonathan Duncan > > The daily email message I get comes in the following format: > > *-*-*-* Start Email Message *-*-*-* > EMAIL HEADERS > > Bulleted list of article titles > -article 1 > -article 2 > > ===== (That is 5 equal characters) > > Article 1 Title > See http://some.server.com/path/to/article.html > <a > href="http://some.server.com/path/to/article.html">Link</a> > See http://additional.server.com/path/to/article.html > <a > href="http://additional.server.com/path/to/article.html">Link</a> > > Article 1 abstract. This gives a brief excerpt of the article. > > ===== (That is 5 equal characters) > > Article 2 Title > See http://some.server.com/path/to/article.html > <a > href="http://some.server.com/path/to/article.html">Link</a> > See http://additional.server.com/path/to/article.html > <a > href="http://additional.server.com/path/to/article.html">Link</a> > > Article 2 abstract. This gives a brief excerpt of the article. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Copyright text ends the message