Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Gostick <matt@deymos.com> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting an Email into a PHP/pl script Message-ID: <20011004181459.X76451-100000@gaspra.deymos.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011005074857.0320bf88@mail.ideal.net.au>
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Hi Chris, Procmail will do what you need (usr/ports/mail/procmail). I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish but if it's just simple mail filtering then procmail can do that without redirecting to a custom script. Matt. On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > Hi all, > > I have looked into the archives but im not sure what im searching for so I > decided to ask here. > > What I want to do is, on my FreeBSD box running PHP and MySQL, to have a > system which will take any email sent to a specific address, and pipe the > body of the email to PHP (or even to a perl script). Once I have the body > of the email as a variable, I can do all my parsing and extracting etc to > do with it as I need, but im baffled on where to start looking to get this > done. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Cheers > > > Chris > > > > Chris Aitken - Administration/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet > email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890 > __-----------------------------------------__ > It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, > some moron in a rotary will still to try and pass them > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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