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From: Matt Gostick <matt@deymos.com>
To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Getting an Email into a PHP/pl script
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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
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