Email processing

[acford]

Hi all,

Does anybody know if its possible to have a site that's able to process incoming emails and execute script based on what it receives?

Or if its not possible to do this via the site, then is there any software that you know of that can do this?

Many Thanks

 

[audiopro]

It would really depend on what you are processing.
Trying to write code to process what would effectively be random input would be very dificult. IMO You would be better with a server side script processing an enquiry form.


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[acford]

Ok, here goes for my explanation. This is a bit tricky.

Imagine I have domain name

http://www.example.com

registered

I host my own web server and all smtp traffic to my domain is also forwarded to my web servers IP.

If somebody sends an email to any email address @ example.com I want the web server to accept the email and be able to extract the email body, sender details and subject from it and store them as variables for later manipulation or saving to a DB.

Does that make sense?

 

[Wullie]

Your best bet would be to accept the mail as normal, then retrieve the e-mail and parse the info using a programming language.

What programming languages do you know?

Hope this helps

Wullie

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