Re: email catching in PHP

On Friday 18 April 2003 11:04, Pag wrote: > 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) Yes it's possible. It's been covered before, search the archives for 'process email' and/or 'process mail' -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? */