Re: Mail responders

1) Make sure you have built the CGI versions of PHP. 2) Create a PHP script file that begings with a bangpath invocation of the PHP CGI binary. So, if your standalone PHP were located in /usr/local/bin/php, your PHP file would start with: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q 3) In your script, use fopen, etc., to read from "php://stdin". The incoming message will be there. 4) Do anything you like with the data. Store it in databases, create a reply and mail() it out, etc. 5) You'll have to convince sendmail to deliver mail for one or more addresses to your PHP script file. With qmail it's a matter of creating a .qmail file with |/path/name but I wouldn't know how to do that particular thing with sendmail as I never use it. Good luck! miguel On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, JSheble wrote: > How would you set this up via PHP? I've wanted to do this, but I always > thought it was something specific to SendMail, and in a hosted environment, > mucking about with SendMail generally isn't allowed... > > I'd like to send an email to something like admin@domain.com but have a > PHP script get the mail and operate on it... > > At 11:56 AM 4/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > > All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how > > > do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through > > > sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at the site go to a > > > 'catchall' address, which is then polled? > > > >Usually the mail is delivered directly to a program rather than to a > >mailbox. The program receives the incoming message as input and handles it > >as it pleases. > > > >miguel > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >