Re: Incoming mail to PHP as Apache module

On Saturday 03 November 2001 02:08 pm, Ross wrote: > Maybe I should be posting this on the Procmail list but someone here > might have a non-Procmail solution. I'm trying to get a PHP script to > process incoming email. I'm sure it can be done with PHP, but my first thought was "why would you want to?" Is there a specific reason you want/have to use PHP for this particular project? PHP is a great web scripting language, but it's not designed as an incoming mail processing tool, so it likely won't do as good of a job as procmail or other similar tools that are written expressly for mail processing. >It seems that I could do with a way of writing a message to a unique >file and then calling the PHP script with wget. The script can then> >read the file. I almost have this working with Procmail by using a >maildir type mailbox but its back to front, I can only call PHP before >the message is written to the file because Procmail stops once it is >'delivered'. If you're looking for something that can look up data in a database and manipulate message headers based on the return data, then I'd say Perl is a better option since it will provide a better blend of powerful text processing with web and database enablement. Specifically, the Mail::Audit perl module available (for free) at CPAN.org. It's intended as a procmail replacement, but with easier syntax and is written in Perl, so you can easily modifiy it to hook into a database. (If you're just playing around with PHP, trying to see what you can do with it, then by all means, give it a whirl and let us all know how it turns out. If not, then hopefully mail::audit or something similar might help you out.) --kurt