Re: Question re: PHP, Qmail and incoming email

Hi Cybercandy! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Cybercandy Ltd wrote: > Hi I'm new to this group, and new to PHP so excuse me if I make any faux > pas. > > I've looked throught the archive to my problem with no joy. I think my > question is quite a simple one, if you know the answer. > > I want to produce a php script to process incoming emails to add a "ticket" > number to them and to check if they already have a ticket number on them. > > My ISP uses: Unix, PHP3/4,Apache, Qmail. note its name is qmail' not Qmail'. > I've worked out how to pipe emails from a certain address to a script, but I > don't know > how to get the script to handle the email once it arrives. Does the email, > that is piped, appear as a predefined variable of some kind... any tips, > advice or pointers toward documentation that a newbie could understand would > be enormously helpful you can have something like `|myscript.php' in your ~/.qmail file. for more details check qmail docs [I particularely enjoy LWQ (life with qmail)] there are plenity of links on www.qmail.org. -- teodor