Re: Mail responders

You must have control over the Message Transfer Agent (MTA), such as SendMail. Or, if your host uses qmail MTA, you set it up using the dot-qmail files in your user directory. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail responders How is that done on the box? Miguel Cruz 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 -- If You want to buy computer parts, see the reviews at: http://www.cnet.com/ **OR EVEN BETTER COMPILATIONS**!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/userreviews/products/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php