Re: Mail responders

On Saturday 27 April 2002 01:13, 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. What are you actually trying to do? If you're trying to make a mailing-list type program then you're better off using an existing mailing list program. Otherwise with sendmail you can use procmail. It's clunky but doable. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* "The whole world is about three drinks behind." -- Humphrey Bogart */