Re: Can a PHP program recieve an e-mail and write it to a file???

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Jeremy Bowen wrote: > Hey, > > Here is what I need to do, I need to have a PHP script recieve an e-mail and > write it to a file after erasing whatever was in the file before. > > I suppose that it should have some sort of authentication built in to prevent > people from e-mailing PHP code that could be processed and do bad things. > > Is there any way to do this? Can a PHP script recieve and e-mail? > > Could the e-mail be written to a mail queue say php-email-processor@domain.com > and the script periodically check the mail queue for new e-mail print its > contents to a text file somewhere in the serverroot and then erase the mail > queue??? > > Does this sound possibile??? > > Thanks, > > Jeremy > If you're using sendmail, you can set up an alias to execute a program and send the message to the program's standard input whenever the message is sent to an arbitrary address. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>