Re: Getting an Email into a PHP/pl script

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:24, Chris Aitken wrote: > Hi all, > > I have looked into the archives but im not sure what im searching for > so I decided to ask here. > > What I want to do is, on my FreeBSD box running PHP and MySQL, to have > a system which will take any email sent to a specific address, and pipe > the body of the email to PHP (or even to a perl script). Once I have > the body of the email as a variable, I can do all my parsing and > extracting etc to do with it as I need, but im baffled on where to > start looking to get this done. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. What are you using for an MTA? If for example you are using sendmail, you can set up an alias, via an entry in /etc/aliases which pipes the incoming mail to a script, which could be a php script. Of course, you would need a php binary. Similarly you can set up an alias file with qmail which passes the email to a script. This is a common technique for say creating web based mail list archives. -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit!