Posted by Chuck Anderson on 06/14/05 07:34

Manuel Lemos wrote:

>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.
>
>
>
Thanks, once again. I'd never used strtok. I understand how it works
and I will probably rewrite some other scripts of mine to use it.

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