Email Piping and PHP

Email Piping PHP Linux

[juliebelle]

I want to know how i can process an email message using PHP. the term is known as Email PIPING but i dont have a clue how to do it or how it works.

what i want basically is a way to get email messages one by one form the mail server inbox and process them.

assume i am using a linux platform.

hope the explanation was clear enough.

Julie

[dcrombie]

To 'pipe' an email to PHP you need to use some shell-scripting - I'd start by looking at procmail unless someone has a better idea.

[juliebelle]

thanks for your reply

what does shell scripting involve? i think PHP can be used for shell scripting or only Perl must be used. i'm not sure.

[jatar_k]

dcrombie is right, procmail is good stuff

it is used to process emails that arrive to certain addresses, we have used it to process emails and insert them into a phpbb forum for customer servoce. It is actually quite a cool program.

[juliebelle]

yes. what i like to do is have a catch all email address and process emails according to the username

for example [e-mail] will be assigned to joe
mary@mydomain will be assigned to mary

What i really wish to do in the end is process the email header and put header info in a mySQL database, but the piping is the challenging part cause i never worked with anything like that before.

I will have a look at procmail..

thanks jatar_k