RE: [PHP] Re: how to make server response to emails

To: Jean -Christian Imbeault Thanks for helping out... I actually do not want a mailing list right now, I already have one. What I need is to use the same concept for some other email driven tasks. After some searching using "process email" I realize I can use PHP to get the emails and parse its contents much like a webmail system. I am not sure, but I think I need and imap extension installed. From another script, the programmer attempt to include the php_imap file, which I am not sure what is it too... Does anyone by any chance know whether imap is a must for retrieval of emails or is it just like you say, extract files from the mail/username folder? Thanks in advance. -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:jc@mega-bucks.co.jp] Sent: 09 January 2003 06:01 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: how to make server response to emails I'm not sure how it's done exactly but I think the basic concept is to have a daemon running, or have your program run by cron, and have the program collect it's mail. On Linux I think you can get your mail simply by fetching and parsing the file /var/spool/mail/"username", where username is the name of the account unsubscribe requests are mailed to. But you want a mailing list, use major domo or some other ML spftware instead of writing your own. Jc -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php