On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote: > All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how > do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through > sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at the site go to a > 'catchall' address, which is then polled?
Usually the mail is delivered directly to a program rather than to a mailbox. The program receives the incoming message as input and handles it as it pleases. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
