e-mail autoreply

[rhodopsin]

When receiving an e-mail I would like to auto-reply an e-mail back. But this is the twist: I don't want to autoreply to the e-mail address that sent it - but want the system to read the e-mail and send it to an address listed in the e-mail.

To flesh this out: paypal will send me an e-mail. Inside telling me that I have received paypent from a certain e-mail. I want to auto send an e-mail to this e-mail address. Not to paypal.

Ideally I want to do this with a web based e-mail account such as hotmail or yahoo. However, would still be interested to hear about solutions with other e-mail account types.

[upside]

Use Paypal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) to capture your customer information on the server backend and store it in a database. Programmatically emailing customers is easy.

[rhodopsin]

can u elaborate? thanks mate.

or perhaps direct me to somewhere with more info.

[upside]

See the "Merchant Tools" section of PayPal's site:

[paypal.com...]

[rhodopsin]

Merchant Tools" section of PayPal's site

The thing is that I wasn't going to opt for a merchant account first off. I am just going for a personal paypal account first off - see how big I get before thinking about merchant. I guess these services are only offered for merchant (is this right?).

So, maybe I should try to do it as I first proposed in the first post of this thread. Anyone - any ideas on how to do this?

[upside]

You don't need a merchant account to use PayPal. That is precisely why so many people use them. PayPal's documentation is pretty good...you could try reading it.

[rhodopsin]

i am still going to use paypal - just the personal version - not the merchant version. this does not offer the features you describe