Posted by Manuel Lemos on 06/14/05 05:47

Hello,

on 06/13/2005 05:43 PM Chuck Anderson said the following:
>>> I want to use an eMail as a trigger to start a program.
>>>
>>> E.g. an eMail-Group: any group-member sends an eMail to a
>>> group-e-adress an the Mail is dispatches automatically to all members.
>>>
>>> I know there are services like yahougroups who do exactly this, but
>>> I wonder wether it's possible to do something like this by my own.
>>>
>>> Further purposes could be to trigger any program on a webserver by a
>>> special trigger-eMail.
>>>
>>
>> That is easy. I do that all the time. Basically you need to assign a
>> certain address to a mailbox reachable by POP3. Then you keep polling
>> the mailbox periodically until a new message reaches there to be
>> redistributed to your mailing list.
>>
>> You may want to use this POP3 class for fetching your messages.
>>
>> http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class
>>
> Thanks for this. I've been playing with it for a couple of hours. I've
> always wanted to automatically verify new users to a mail list I
> created. I'm sure you know what I mean. When they sign up I send an
> automated email which they must respond to (leaving the subject
> intact). This is going to work great (using cron to poll).
>
> Have you any clever method for pulling lines out of the headers array?
> Using explode at the :'s will not work because of the Date line (time
> contains :'s), so I do this:
> (just curious to know if there is a simpler way to do it)


Sure, strtok($line,": "); to pick the header name, and then strtok("");
to pick the header value . Just keep in mind that header line that start
with space or tab are continuation of previous header line value.



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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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