Re: how to process incoming mails?

In article <20030526172757.68863.qmail@pb1.pair.com>, me@celebrate.lu says... > Hi, > > i'm using SuSE Linux 8.1 with Apache 2 and PHP 4... > here is what i want to do: > if someone writes a mail to theaddress@somehost.com it should be directly > processed by a PHP script... > (I need it for a simple script, that validates email addresses... (similar > to the PHP newsgroups validation...)) > > how can i do that? > > is there a way, that sendmail directly passes incoming mails to a > PHP-script, when they arrive? > > Thanks in advance for any help... > > - Marco Weber - Yes - you need to set up an alias entry which points to the script. Add a line like theaddress: "| /path/to/script.php" to your alias file - IIRC its /etc/alias.txt on Slackware - and as root run the command newaliases to update the aliases database. Subsequently all mail to theaddress will be piped to the script. Then I think you need to open /dev/stdin in your script to access the data from the pipe. -- Quod subigo farinam $email =~ s/oz$/au/o;