Re: Getting PHP to read the mail!

>I'm writting an autoresponder system in PHP. and I'm using wget in my cron >jobs to process it. Is there a way that I can process incoming mail in PHP >and call the PHP using a similar method? > >Basically I want to go through all the email messages checking if they are >to autoresponder@blah.com and if they are I would like to processes the mail >body and subject line. > >I'm sure there are different languages to do all this in; mmmm, Perl 5.0 >for example but I like PHP ;-) If you are using sendmail (or qmail) and you have access to sendmail.conf, do it just like Perl autoresponders: Change sendmail.conf to have an EXEC (?) that calls a PHP script which must live in smrsh directory and must start with: #!/path/to/php You'll want to read "man smrsh" and "man sendmail" to get started... This assumes you compiled PHP as a CGI (or CLI these days) as well as Module for Apache. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Off-Topic: What is the moral equivalent of 'cat' in Windows?