Account activation via email

I'm supposed to do the account activation via email. I mean *not*
sending the activation link like http://foo.com/foo.php?actcode=foo.
But, I would like it to be like <actcode>-activation@domain.com or so.
I remember, once I did it by checking the POP3 server. Now, I totally
forgot how I did it in PHP or server. Also, I couldn't find any
solution/script by Googling. Anyone has the idea?

TIA.

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Hello Rajesh,

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:

> I'm supposed to do the account activation via email. I mean *not*
> sending the activation link like http://foo.com/foo.php?actcode=foo.
> But, I would like it to be like <actcode>-activation@domain.com or so.

[ I´m assuming a Unix server here ]

In the ¨<actcode>-activation@domain.com" case, I think you would need
to plug your code into the e-mail system. I think it will be easier if
you use a single e-mail address activation@domain.com and put the
<actcode> in the subject line of the activation e-mails.

If you have shell access on the machine, you can then put a line
in the .forward file for the "activation" user that tells the e-mail
system to pipe the e-mail to a PHP command line script that you wrote.
In that script you can then do anything you want with the e-mail.

I don't remember the exact syntax for the .forward file,
but I think you can find it on Google.

Best regards,

Eric

Eric Veltman <eric@[RemoveThis]veltman.nu> wrote in message news:<vppnnssuq4p394@corp.supernews.com>...
> Hello Rajesh,
>
> R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
>
> > I'm supposed to do the account activation via email. I mean *not*
> > sending the activation link like http://foo.com/foo.php?actcode=foo.
> > But, I would like it to be like <actcode>-activation@domain.com or so.
>
> [ I´m assuming a Unix server here ]
>
> In the ¨<actcode>-activation@domain.com" case, I think you would need
> to plug your code into the e-mail system. I think it will be easier if
> you use a single e-mail address activation@domain.com and put the
> <actcode> in the subject line of the activation e-mails.
>
> If you have shell access on the machine, you can then put a line
> in the .forward file for the "activation" user that tells the e-mail
> system to pipe the e-mail to a PHP command line script that you wrote.
> In that script you can then do anything you want with the e-mail.
>
> I don't remember the exact syntax for the .forward file,
> but I think you can find it on Google.

Thanks a lot!

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