Reading email from sendmail

Good afternoon, all!!

Is there a function or series of functions in PHP that will allow a PHP
package to read email from a sendmail account, look for a specific
information in the subject line, then be able to resend that email to a
group of users?? I know mail can be used to send email but reading from
sendmail???...

Any information is greatly appreciated and profoundly useful.

Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky
Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service
Grants, NM 87020

Robin Kopetzky wrote:

> Good afternoon, all!!
>
> Is there a function or series of functions in PHP that will allow a PHP
> package to read email from a sendmail account, look for a specific
> information in the subject line, then be able to resend that email to a
> group of users?? I know mail can be used to send email but reading from
> sendmail???...
>
> Any information is greatly appreciated and profoundly useful.
>
> Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky
> Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service
> Grants, NM 87020

You could use the imap functions to read from an IMAP account quite easily.

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paperCrane <Justin Patrin>

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 08:58 AM, Robin Kopetzky wrote:

> Good afternoon, all!!
>
> Is there a function or series of functions in PHP that will allow a
> PHP
> package to read email from a sendmail account, look for a specific
> information in the subject line, then be able to resend that email to a
> group of users?? I know mail can be used to send email but reading from
> sendmail???...
>
> Any information is greatly appreciated and profoundly useful.
>

http://au2.php.net/imap

Might be a good starting point.


Justin French

Hello,

On 12/08/2003 07:58 PM, Robin Kopetzky wrote:
> Is there a function or series of functions in PHP that will allow a PHP
> package to read email from a sendmail account, look for a specific
> information in the subject line, then be able to resend that email to a
> group of users?? I know mail can be used to send email but reading from
> sendmail???...

You can always try to read the mail box file directly if your Web server
user has the right permissions. However, the most portable way is to
connect to your POP3 server to fetch the messages as you need.

In that case you may want to take a look at this POP3 client class:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class

--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

In article <HCEBLNDFHDPOOELMIHOMIEFLCNAA.sparkyk@blackmesa-isp.net>,
sparkyk@blackmesa-isp.net says...
> Good afternoon, all!!
>
> Is there a function or series of functions in PHP that will allow a PHP
> package to read email from a sendmail account, look for a specific
> information in the subject line, then be able to resend that email to a
> group of users?? I know mail can be used to send email but reading from
> sendmail???...
>
> Any information is greatly appreciated and profoundly useful.
>
> Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky
> Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service
> Grants, NM 87020

If the 'sendmail account' can be a dedicated address, you can use
sendmail's alias to direct any emails to a php script which does what you
need.

Cheers
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