Checking Mail On The Way In

[Mondo]

Hi all

I've got my own LAMP server and I need to be able to check emails as they come into the server. What I need to do is check to see if an email has been received from PayPal, and then if so, extract an item ID from the body of the email then run a script to update a database.

Is there something prebuilt into Apache that could deal with this, or is it something outside of Apache?

Any information would be great as I'm supposed to launch something tomorrow and I can't until I've resolved this!

TIA

Mondo

[jdMorgan]

Apache doesn't handle mail, it's an HTTP Web server. FTP and e-mail are handled by different server programs, so you may want to start with your mail server program's Web site/FAQ to see if there are any plug-ins available that will do what you need.

Jim

[Mondo]

Thanks for that Jim. I'll go hunting...