RE: [PHP] email catching in PHP
| From: | Dan Harrington | Date: | Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:56:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] email catching in PHP | ||
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I think what you really want is procmail. Its made to be integrated with
many mail transport applications. I'm sure you could integrate its output
with PHP, but I'd start with procmail.
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pag [mailto:dante@mail.telepac.pt]
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:05 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] email catching in PHP
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>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a weird question. I tried searching the net for it but i cant find
> anything useful.
>
> Is it possible to catch an email on the server using PHP? This is my
> problem: I have a dynamic site in php, it has news items that are updated
> from a mysql database, put there using a backoffice application i built.
> Would it be possible to send an email to an email account on the domain
> where my site is hosted, and having a script to "catch" it and add it to
> the database?
> An email like this, for example:
>
> To: newsadd@mydomain.com
> Subject: Title of the news here
> Content:
> Today we saw an increase, blah blah...
>
> This news item would automatically be inserted to the site the moment it
> got there.
> Is this even remotely possible? How? Cron Jobs? (whatever they are :-P)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pag
>
>
>
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