Something like:
http://blog.viget.com/tech/2006/10/06/smart-application-messaging-the-email-reflector/
see also this site
so, does this look doable? or am I going to have to rig up something to check pop email?
reflecting email into a script
- Paulm
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Hi, I'd like to be able to send an email and have a script receive the contents.
Something like:
http://blog.viget.com/tech/2006/10/06/smart-application-messaging-the-email-reflector/
see also this site
so, does this look doable? or am I going to have to rig up something to check pop email?
Something like:
http://blog.viget.com/tech/2006/10/06/smart-application-messaging-the-email-reflector/
see also this site
so, does this look doable? or am I going to have to rig up something to check pop email?
- William
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This certainly is doable -- you want to do it with php and not a Rails app?
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer
Regardless, you don't have to mess around with pop. You can create the "| /path/to/script" mail alias in your cPanel (create a forwarder) and have a script handle the email automatically.
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer
Regardless, you don't have to mess around with pop. You can create the "| /path/to/script" mail alias in your cPanel (create a forwarder) and have a script handle the email automatically.
2007-04-03 04:33 PM
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William,
Thanks for the speedy reply! I'm trying to set up a simple proof of concept, but I think I need some more direction
I set up this forwarder in cpanel:
txt@suburbly.com "| /home/suburbl/public_html/mail/process.sh"
process.sh just puts data piped to in into a text file:
***
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# pwd
/home/suburbl/public_html/mail
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# ls -lah
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 suburbl suburbl 4.0K Apr 4 11:20 ./
drwxr-x--- 29 suburbl nobody 4.0K Apr 3 16:56 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 suburbl suburbl 56 Apr 3 17:25 process.sh*
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# cat process.sh
#!/bin/bash
read whatcamein
echo $whatcamein > received
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# echo "foo" | /home/suburbl/public_html/mail/process.sh
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# ls
./ ../ process.sh* received
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# cat received
foo
***
I send a mail to txt@suburbly.com, but nothing happens. Advice?
Thanks for the speedy reply! I'm trying to set up a simple proof of concept, but I think I need some more direction
I set up this forwarder in cpanel:
txt@suburbly.com "| /home/suburbl/public_html/mail/process.sh"
process.sh just puts data piped to in into a text file:
***
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# pwd
/home/suburbl/public_html/mail
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# ls -lah
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 suburbl suburbl 4.0K Apr 4 11:20 ./
drwxr-x--- 29 suburbl nobody 4.0K Apr 3 16:56 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 suburbl suburbl 56 Apr 3 17:25 process.sh*
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# cat process.sh
#!/bin/bash
read whatcamein
echo $whatcamein > received
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# echo "foo" | /home/suburbl/public_html/mail/process.sh
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# ls
./ ../ process.sh* received
suburbl@luther [~/public_html/mail]# cat received
foo
***
I send a mail to txt@suburbly.com, but nothing happens. Advice?
2007-04-04 11:31 AM
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I may have spoke too soon!
I tried it again, and this time i got a bounced message. apparently it barfed on line 3 of my script. why? duh, i didn't specify the absolute path to the output file.
set the absolute path, sent a mail, got a text file with the first line of the mail.
sweet. thanks!
I tried it again, and this time i got a bounced message. apparently it barfed on line 3 of my script. why? duh, i didn't specify the absolute path to the output file.
set the absolute path, sent a mail, got a text file with the first line of the mail.
sweet. thanks!