Re: Pipe To A Program

On 12 Nov 2011, at 11:49, Ron Piggott wrote: > Ok. It works. I finally am able to display the contents of an e-mail! Now I am able to write > my apps > > I see your monster of all incoming e-mail processors ;) Thanks for showing me this. I will > look it over when I am more awake. I kind of get it right now, but I need to look more closely. Good stuff. I've resurrected an article that used to be on my site that explains that example code in a bit more detail: http://stut.net/2011/11/12/handling-email-notifications/ - hopefully that will make it less of a monster :) -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ > -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Dallas > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:21 AM > To: Ron Piggott > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Pipe To A Program > > On 12 Nov 2011, at 07:38, Ron Piggott wrote: > >> I am looking at CPanel’s “E-Mail filtering” option “Pipe To A Program” >> http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/FilterOptions >> >> The goal I am working towards is saving the contents of an incoming e-mail address into a mySQL table. I am thinking of trying to program a customer contact center application. >> >> Does anyone know what variable the e-mail message is assigned within the context of “Pipe To A Program”? Is there a way to find out? I can’t figure this out. >> >> What I have tried so far is below: >> >> === >> #!/usr/local/bin/php -q >> <?php >> >> >> foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $val) { >> $$key = $val; >> >> $email_body .= "KEY: " . $key . "\r\n"; >> $email_body .= "VAL: " . $val . "\r\n"; >> $email_body .= "\r\n"; >> >> } >> >> mail( user@domain , "Test Pipe To Program" , $email_body ); >> === >> >> The mail command works, but the e-mail message body is empty. I am at a loss of how to proceed. > > > When you pipe email to a program the mail server literally does that - it pipes the contents of the email to the stdin of your program. > > In PHP you would then read the email contents like so... > > $email = file_get_contents('php://stdin'); > > Note that what you get is the raw email, complete with headers. When I do this in PHP I use the Mailparse extension: http://php.net/book.mailparse > > Here's a (somewhat over-complicated) example from an old version of TwitApps when I processed Twitter email notifications: https://gist.github.com/1360403 > > -Stuart > > -- > Stuart Dallas > 3ft9 Ltd > http://3ft9.com/