Dear Josh,
Thanks for your prompt reply
I will surely look around on the web for info on this pathy of action.
thanks once again
regards
Ankur Verma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatic incoming mail notification
> Depends on your mailserver. Most mail servers can redirect incoming
> mail to a program, I know sendmail can. In your case just make the first
> line of your script #!/path/to/php/bin/php and that should do the trick.
>
> Sorry I don't know how to make sendmail do it, only that you can.
> Check the man pages tho, shouldn't be too hard.
>
> Gfunk - http://www.gfunk007.com/
>
> I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to
> hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ankur Verma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "PHP User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:51 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Automatic incoming mail notification
>
>
> Hello All!
>
> Sorry for this off-topic posting but this is extremely important for me.
>
> I need a php script to be called each time my email mailbox recieves a new
> email message. One way is to have a cron job running and get the php
script
> to check my mailbox every few minutes to see if there are any new emails
and
> do the needfull if there is one.
>
> But I guess that there should be a way for the mail server to initiate
some
> action based on the reciept of a new mail in a particular mailbox. I don't
> think trhat sites like Yahoo and Hotmail use cron jobs to sense new emails
> in a user's mailbox. Another possibility might be that the checking is
being
> done every few minutes by the client application.
>
> if anyone has any idea about the methodology being followed by Yahoo and
> Hotmail, please be kind enough to pass it on. If anyone is aware of a mail
> server otr a mailserver addin which would enable automatic notification
and
> initiaition of script on the reciept of a new email, please pass the info
> on.
>
> I am on Redhat 6.2 with cyrus as my mail server and am using PHP4.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ankur Verma
> HCL Technologies
> A1CD, Sector 16,
> Noida
>
>
>
>
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