Forward Email to a Script

shanimal · 4-7-12, 01:28 PM

I am looking to forward email messages going to a particular address to a php script for processing.

Similar to this...
http://kb.siteground.com/article/How...HP_script.html

There is no option for setting this up in mailcentral. All forwards are only allowed to go to a valid email address. But it cannot forward to a php script.

This is pretty important to me because I want to create a program that allows users to upload images from any device via email. SMS is the next challenge.

**Jim M** · 4-7-12, 11:29 PM

Unfortunately, that's really outside the scope of our services - not something I've ever heard anyone request before! Our mail systems and website ones are really quite separate. I can't think of a way you can do it on our systems, as I doubt a script on the web side would even be able to connect to an email box, in order to check it for messages. Sorry!

rainbore · 4-8-12, 12:05 AM

A script can connect with an Email system. That's why/how SquirrelMail works. It's just that the system shanimal referred to offers direct piping - a nifty feature, to be sure.

The scripts sites have lots of examples, or you can start with the PHP IMAP Manual. You'd still have to set up a CRON job to get it to run periodically, of course, since the incoming Email won't trigger the script here. I wrote a simple mail reader script in Perl about a decade ago, intending to use it for a similar purpose. But I've never written one in PHP and I don't know how difficult it would be to parse out the attachments. I'd expect one of the scripts available online would have an example, though.

**snowmaker** · 4-8-12, 10:40 AM

Here's a script written by a member, who is here no longer. It used to work here, but I don't know if it still does, with the change and all.
Read and auto-process mail

4-7-12, 01:28 PM	#1
shanimal Registered Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Oakley, CA Posts: 7 Reputation: 0	Forward Email to a Script I am looking to forward email messages going to a particular address to a php script for processing. Similar to this... http://kb.siteground.com/article/How...HP_script.html There is no option for setting this up in mailcentral. All forwards are only allowed to go to a valid email address. But it cannot forward to a php script. This is pretty important to me because I want to create a program that allows users to upload images from any device via email. SMS is the next challenge.

4-8-12, 12:05 AM	#3
rainbore Rick Join Date: May 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 1,695 Reputation: 280	A script can connect with an Email system. That's why/how SquirrelMail works. It's just that the system shanimal referred to offers direct piping - a nifty feature, to be sure. The scripts sites have lots of examples, or you can start with the PHP IMAP Manual. You'd still have to set up a CRON job to get it to run periodically, of course, since the incoming Email won't trigger the script here. I wrote a simple mail reader script in Perl about a decade ago, intending to use it for a similar purpose. But I've never written one in PHP and I don't know how difficult it would be to parse out the attachments. I'd expect one of the scripts available online would have an example, though. __________________ Rick Trethewey

4-8-12, 10:40 AM	#4
snowmaker   Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Solomons Island Posts: 3,119 Reputation: 318	Here's a script written by a member, who is here no longer. It used to work here, but I don't know if it still does, with the change and all. Read and auto-process mail __________________ -bruce /* somdcomputerguy / 'If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.'*

4-7-12, 11:29 PM	#2
Jim M PowWeb Staff Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 93 Reputation: 76	Unfortunately, that's really outside the scope of our services - not something I've ever heard anyone request before! Our mail systems and website ones are really quite separate. I can't think of a way you can do it on our systems, as I doubt a script on the web side would even be able to connect to an email box, in order to check it for messages. Sorry!