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Posted by Jeremy on 01/02/08 22:07
Bill Bell wrote:
> The subject line is a little too general. I would like you to tell me
> about scripts that can receive email messages and call other scripts
> depending on the content of these messages.
>
> Thanks!
I have implemented such a thing as a daemon that periodically parses a
mailbox on the local server and does various things with the content of
the messages (processing meta tags inside the message, archiving
attachments to NAS, etc). Let me first say that while it is entirely
possible to do this in PHP, it is probably not the best choice (my
opinion, of course).
If you're more specific about what you are trying to do, you'll probably
get better answers. For example, can your script sit on the same
machine as the mail server, or do you need to use IMAP to retrieve the
messages (which is far more complicated)? Will the process be initiated
manually, or periodically, or will it always be running? What sort of
things do you intend to do with the information in the messages?
Jeremy
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