read incoming mail and redirect to php script

[tunde]

Hi, i am working on a project. i need to read every incoming mail sent to an email address. this mail will be redirected to a php code for processing. do anyone has any idea how to i can write this code in cgi.
thanks

[jthayne]

You can do this using Exim and procmail. Check with your server administrator to find out how to use an Exim script on your server.

For example, I have the following .procmailrc file on one of the sites I have developed that processes a specific format of email and redirects those emails to a PHP script:

VERBOSE=off
#LOGABSTRACT=yes
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/theFolder
LOGFILE=/home/*********/procmail.log
DEFAULT=$HOME/theFolder

#Get the subject discarding any leading and trailing blanks
#Note: On some systems -xSubject: has to be -x"Subject: "
SUBJ_=`formail -xSubject: \
       | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

:0:
* ^Subject:.*.Repair Order
{
  :0 fwh
  | formail -I"Subject: ${SUBJ_}"
  :0c:
  $DEFAULT
  :0:
  |/usr/bin/php -f /home/*******/public_html/scrape.php $LASTFOLDER
}

Then I set up a forwarder that forwards all mail sent to a specific email address to

|/usr/bin/procmail -v

It is a fun project that can get very complicated very quickly, but once it works, it is really exciting to make it so.