[PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Dennis Gearon
All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at the site go to a 'catchall' address, which is then polled? -- If You want to buy computer parts,

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote: All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at the site go to a 'catchall' address, which is then

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Dennis Gearon
How is that done on the box? Miguel Cruz wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote: All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread JSheble
How would you set this up via PHP? I've wanted to do this, but I always thought it was something specific to SendMail, and in a hosted environment, mucking about with SendMail generally isn't allowed... I'd like to send an email to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] but have a PHP script get

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Miguel Cruz
1) Make sure you have built the CGI versions of PHP. 2) Create a PHP script file that begings with a bangpath invocation of the PHP CGI binary. So, if your standalone PHP were located in /usr/local/bin/php, your PHP file would start with: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q 3) In your script, use fopen,

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Richard Emery
:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail responders How is that done on the box? Miguel Cruz wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote: All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through sendmail

Re: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 27 April 2002 01:13, JSheble wrote: How would you set this up via PHP? I've wanted to do this, but I always thought it was something specific to SendMail, and in a hosted environment, mucking about with SendMail generally isn't allowed... I'd like to send an email to something

RE: [PHP] Mail responders

2002-04-26 Thread Steve
snip I'd like to send an email to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] but have a PHP script get the mail and operate on it... snip You might want to reference an article from the May issue of Sysadmin Magazine ( http://www.sysadminmag.com/ ) title 'Using Email to Perform UNIX System Monitoring