incoming emails

[Rod]

Hi,

sometimes, when an action is done on my web site, i send an email to another
application.
This application send me automatically a confirmation by email with an
auto-generated number.

How can i automatically get the email to parse it and save this number in a
table?

Do I need a specific mail server that starts a task when it receives an
email?
Suppose I install this mail server, how can I communicate the email content
to a php script (so it can parse the email and save the number in a
table)???

Maybe I can't do that with and need to use a perl script?? So the mail
server run the perl script with the email content??

Thanks you for your help because i am lost!

Rodolphe.

[Andy Jeffries]

Re: incoming emails

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:34:42 +0200, Rod hammered his head on the keyboard
and somehow managed to type:[color=blue]
> This application send me automatically a confirmation by email with an
> auto-generated number.
>
> How can i automatically get the email to parse it and save this number in a
> table?
>
> Do I need a specific mail server that starts a task when it receives an
> email?[/color]

Most mail servers (under Linux at least) can pass an email to a script.
[color=blue]
> Suppose I install this mail server, how can I communicate the email
> content to a php script (so it can parse the email and save the number
> in a table)???[/color]

If you have the command line binary installed just use something like:

incomingaccount | php /home/someone/php-email.php

and send email to incomingaccount @yourdomain.com
[color=blue]
> Maybe I can't do that with and need to use a perl script?? So the mail
> server run the perl script with the email content??[/color]

The same applies, just put the perl script in the mail server setting file
(e.g. /etc/aliases for sendmail or exim).

Note Sendmail can be very tricky in where it will run processes from.
[color=blue]
> Thanks you for your help because i am lost![/color]

You may also be able to do this with a .redirect file in the home dir of a
user who reads this account.


Or finally, you could put these emails in to a POP3 account and have a
script run every X minutes from a cron job that downloads the POP3 mail
(using the IMAP functions in PHP).

Cheers,


Andy

[Shawn Wilson]

Re: incoming emails

Rod wrote:
[color=blue]
> sometimes, when an action is done on my web site, i send an email to another
> application.
> This application send me automatically a confirmation by email with an
> auto-generated number.
>
> How can i automatically get the email to parse it and save this number in a
> table?
>
> Do I need a specific mail server that starts a task when it receives an
> email?
> Suppose I install this mail server, how can I communicate the email content
> to a php script (so it can parse the email and save the number in a
> table)???[/color]

I'm just playing with this for the first time. The imap functions are working
well for me so far. I plan to run a cron job every hour or so to check for and
process new mail.

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php

Shawn
--
Shawn Wilson
shawn@glassgian t.com

http://www.glassgiant.com

[Rod]

Re: incoming emails

Hi all,

thanks you both for your answers.
i will have a look to your solutions.
I think I need time to understand, because i don't exactly know what is
POP3, IMAP etc etc.

Thanks you again

Rodolphe
"Shawn Wilson" <shawn@glassgia nt.com> wrote in message
news:3F90062A.9 DB3A014@glassgi ant.com...[color=blue]
> Rod wrote:
>[color=green]
> > sometimes, when an action is done on my web site, i send an email to[/color][/color]
another[color=blue][color=green]
> > application.
> > This application send me automatically a confirmation by email with an
> > auto-generated number.
> >
> > How can i automatically get the email to parse it and save this number[/color][/color]
in a[color=blue][color=green]
> > table?
> >
> > Do I need a specific mail server that starts a task when it receives an
> > email?
> > Suppose I install this mail server, how can I communicate the email[/color][/color]
content[color=blue][color=green]
> > to a php script (so it can parse the email and save the number in a
> > table)???[/color]
>
> I'm just playing with this for the first time. The imap functions are[/color]
working[color=blue]
> well for me so far. I plan to run a cron job every hour or so to check[/color]
for and[color=blue]
> process new mail.
>
> http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php
>
> Shawn
> --
> Shawn Wilson
> shawn@glassgian t.com
> http://www.glassgiant.com[/color]

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: incoming emails

I noticed that Message-ID: <bmogfm$3p3$1@h ome.itg.ti.com> from Rod
contained the following:
[color=blue]
>sometimes, when an action is done on my web site, i send an email to another
>application.
>This application send me automatically a confirmation by email with an
>auto-generated number.
>
>How can i automatically get the email to parse it and save this number in a
>table?[/color]

Could PHP on the website not do it all?

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