How to pass incoming emails to a script?

[Anon]

Hi everyone

On the mailing list for my site, I have the bounced emails currently sent to [e-mail]

Is there a way to automatically forward all emails sent to [e-mail] to some script at foo.php so that I can pase the email and update the db as necessary?

I have heard some stuff about the .forward file but was not able to go any further?

Can anyone help? ANy examples (including telnet) would be greatly appreciated!

Best.

php_user

[Anon]

You say nothing about the os or mailer you're using. This is easy with most unix mail systems, where you can pipe the incoming messages to a program. For Windows, your guess is a good as mine...

[Anon]

Hi

I am using Apache with sendmail on a linux box with the home directory called /home/php_user

I want to pipe all emails sent to [e-mail] to
$DOCUMENT_ROOT/private_scripts/process_email.php

Someone told me there were two ways to do this 1) via the aliases option in sendmail (webmin) or 2) via the .forward file in the home directory.

As I am a newbie at sendmail, any examples with actual lines of code would be greatly appreciated.