Re: How are they doing it?
| From: | Michael Kimsal | Date: | Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:07:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How are they doing it? | ||
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Gary wrote:
Hello Everyone. I saw a Perl script today that the owners of the site can send an email and pages would update automatically update. How are they accomplishing this? GaryHOW: The mail goes to an address, which is passed to procmail, which passes the mail info to a script. In our case it's a PHP script. It could just as easily be a perl script, or python, or whatever. PHP EXAMPLES: We've done pretty much the same thing at http://www.updatebyemail.com. Recipesbyemail.com is doing something similar - processing a request by parsing an email, then sending results back. If anyone gets 'redbook' magazine, you may have read about pillowmail.com - again, a client of ours using PHP and parsing thousands of emails per day with procmail/PHP. Michael Kimsal http://www.phphelpdesk.com 734-480-9961