Gary wrote: > Hello Everyone. > I saw a Perl script today that the owners of the site can send an email > and pages would update automatically update. How are they accomplishing > this? > > Gary >
HOW: The mail goes to an address, which is passed to procmail, which passes the mail info to a script. In our case it's a PHP script. It could just as easily be a perl script, or python, or whatever. PHP EXAMPLES: We've done pretty much the same thing at http://www.updatebyemail.com. Recipesbyemail.com is doing something similar - processing a request by parsing an email, then sending results back. If anyone gets 'redbook' magazine, you may have read about pillowmail.com - again, a client of ours using PHP and parsing thousands of emails per day with procmail/PHP. Michael Kimsal http://www.phphelpdesk.com 734-480-9961 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
