Re: [PHP] PHP Auto-Responder
Kevin, et al -- ...and then Kevin Stone said... % % I need a solution to activate a PHP script when somebody sends an email to a % specified account. I've looked into procmail and sork and find that I am in I won't go into procmail propaganda except to say that it isn't as hard as it looks -- or as most people make it out to be. I can't think of an MTA that doesn't have a forwarding method (.forward or .qmail, with exim and postfix perhaps having something else but they all work the same way). Set up mail forwarding so that a copy goes to your PHP script, or a wrapper script that does something with the message and then calls your real script. No need for cron jobs and polling. [If you want, you can also store a copy of the email by providing a second target in the forward file). HTH HAND Happy Holidays :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg89969/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[PHP] PHP Auto-Responder
I need a solution to activate a PHP script when somebody sends an email to a specified account. I've looked into procmail and sork and find that I am in way over my head. I know my way around PHP well enough but I'm more than a little dense when it comes to Unix commands. I wouldn't even know how to install procmail, let alone use it. So is there a more Plug n' Play solution that I can unzip, upload to my FTP account, modify a few variables, and just have it work? Perhaps through sendmail which is already installed on the server? Surely the problem is universial enough that somebody has come up with a solution. I appreciate any help tracking it down. -Kevin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Auto-Responder
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:16, Kevin Stone wrote: I need a solution to activate a PHP script when somebody sends an email to a specified account. I've looked into procmail and sork and find that I am in way over my head. I know my way around PHP well enough but I'm more than a little dense when it comes to Unix commands. I wouldn't even know how to install procmail, let alone use it. So is there a more Plug n' Play solution that I can unzip, upload to my FTP account, modify a few variables, and just have it work? Perhaps through sendmail which is already installed on the server? Surely the problem is universial enough that somebody has come up with a solution. I appreciate any help tracking it down. I'm not sure about the problem being universal (enough) but the solution certainly isn't universal :-) Different MTAs would require different configurations and may require more privileges than a standard webhosting account usually have. One solution you can consider is to have a php script polling a mail account at regular intervals and acting on whatever mail it gets. This way, you don't have to worry about what MTA your host is using, and does away with the need to install extra software. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * /* The bigger they are, the harder they hit. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Auto-Responder
- Original Message - From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Auto-Responder On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:16, Kevin Stone wrote: I need a solution to activate a PHP script when somebody sends an email to a specified account. I've looked into procmail and sork and find that I am in way over my head. I know my way around PHP well enough but I'm more than a little dense when it comes to Unix commands. I wouldn't even know how to install procmail, let alone use it. So is there a more Plug n' Play solution that I can unzip, upload to my FTP account, modify a few variables, and just have it work? Perhaps through sendmail which is already installed on the server? Surely the problem is universial enough that somebody has come up with a solution. I appreciate any help tracking it down. I'm not sure about the problem being universal (enough) but the solution certainly isn't universal :-) Different MTAs would require different configurations and may require more privileges than a standard webhosting account usually have. One solution you can consider is to have a php script polling a mail account at regular intervals and acting on whatever mail it gets. This way, you don't have to worry about what MTA your host is using, and does away with the need to install extra software. Yes that was the obvious solution unfortunately my web host does not have crontab installed for users forcing me to seek other solutions. I have asked my web host if they can install crontab and hopefully they respond favorably to my request. If not then I may have a find a host just to do this one job which seems like kind of a waste considering we're talking about an infantesimal amount of bandwidth (four or five requests per hour). Anyay I appreciate your help. At least I'm a little bit more focused now. Thanks, -Kevin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
