Hello, Good Morning to all. D

[Sleidia]

Hello,

Good Morning to all.

Does anyone know if it is possible to have PHP read/filter
incoming mails in a mail box and display the filtered
message on a web page?

For exemple, doing that I could try to match the word "run" found in the message and make PHP do something if the word is really found inside the mail.

Any idea?

 

[capitano]

Sure this is possible.

On a Unix/Linux/BSD based system, mail is kept in a user's mail spool. The mail spool is simply a file, like /var/spool/username

PHP has a rich set of file access and regular expression functions. So you would use PHP to open the mail spool file:

$fp = fopen("/var/spool/username", "r"

...and then parse through the file one-line-at-a-time until you found the word "run":

while (!feof($fp)){
$line = fgets($fp, 100);
if eregi("run", $line){
echo "we found the word run";
break;
}
}

Of course, you'll actually have to do much more reqular expression stuff to keep track of where you are inside the mail spool because mail spools are a bunch of emails stuck together. But this is the basic idea I think.

Bryan

 

[Sleidia]

Dear Brian,

Thanks a lot for your VERY VERY helpful message.
I will give it a try soon.

Bye bye...