Re: Automatic incoming mail notification

"Josh G" <josh@gfunk007.com> wrote: > Depends on your mailserver. Most mail servers can redirect incoming > mail to a program, I know sendmail can. In your case just make the first > line of your script #!/path/to/php/bin/php and that should do the trick. To actually read from the message piped to the PHP script, you'll need to use the following to read from STDIN: fopen( 'php://stdin', 'r' ); The above isn't widely documented, but it works. With all this said, if the original poster simply wants to let a web-based user know that there is a new message in the user's email box, a better strategy may be to store all of the messages in a database like MySQL and compare the timestamp on the most recent message to the timestamp in a session variable from the previous page access. It wasn't clear what the poster was attempting, but with some more details someone (maybe me) could provide a good solution. Also, PHP has functions for accessing IMAP accounts which could prove useful. > Sorry I don't know how to make sendmail do it, only that you can. Using sendmail you add an alias to pipe incoming email to a program (your PHP script). You may also need to create a symbolic link in a directory utilized by smrsh (sendmail restricted shell) to allow sendmail to execute your script (this is done for security reasons). "man smrsh" for details. -- Steve Werby COO 24-7 Computer Services, LLC Tel: 804.817.2470 http://www.247computing.com/