On 12 Nov 2011, at 07:38, Ron Piggott wrote:
> I am looking at CPanel’s “E-Mail filtering” option “Pipe To A Program”
> http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/FilterOptions
>
> The goal I am working towards is saving the contents of an incoming e-mail
> address into a mySQL table. I am thinking of trying to program a customer
> contact center application.
>
> Does anyone know what variable the e-mail message is assigned within the
> context of “Pipe To A Program”? Is there a way to find out? I can’t figure
> this out.
>
> What I have tried so far is below:
>
> ===
> #!/usr/local/bin/php -q
> <?php
>
>
> foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $val) {
> $$key = $val;
>
> $email_body .= "KEY: " . $key . "\r\n";
> $email_body .= "VAL: " . $val . "\r\n";
> $email_body .= "\r\n";
>
> }
>
> mail( user@domain , "Test Pipe To Program" , $email_body );
> ===
>
> The mail command works, but the e-mail message body is empty. I am at a
> loss of how to proceed.
When you pipe email to a program the mail server literally does that - it pipes
the contents of the email to the stdin of your program.
In PHP you would then read the email contents like so...
$email = file_get_contents('php://stdin');
Note that what you get is the raw email, complete with headers. When I do this
in PHP I use the Mailparse extension: http://php.net/book.mailparse
Here's a (somewhat over-complicated) example from an old version of TwitApps
when I processed Twitter email notifications: https://gist.github.com/1360403
-Stuart
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