How do I create an Email Reply script?

[LeonKl2]

I want to make a script that would, for example, if somebody emailed script@mydomain.com, it would save their name and email, and then reply to them with a message.

I know how to do all of that except on thing:
How to get the script to read the information from the message?

So far, I've managed to set up a .forward so sending an email activates the script, but how do I get the script to read who sent the email?

Thanks,
Leon

 

[lgarner]

I'd check out formail (man formail), or just look for the From header in your script.

cat message | formail -X From\ |awk '{print $2}'

seems to do what you want. Note there are 2 spaces total between "From\" and "|awk"

 

[LeonKl2]

Looks good, I'll check it out.

So is this implemented in PHP or on on the prompt?

 

[lgarner]

formail is a console command, part of the procmail package. I don't know if PHP has an equivalent. Basically, you would just read the text and strip out what follows the "From ".