How to Pipe an Email to PHP?

Channel5

How do I pipe an email address to run a php script and get 3 values from the email to update my database?

Basically, it seems I have 3 problems:

1) If I have an email address setup to bounce emails, how to I get my bounce.php script to run everytime that email account gets an email?

2) How do I get the email address that the email was originally sent to?

3) Since this is part of an autoresponder, how would I code the original email sent so that I could get the newsletter id from the email if it bounces?

dagon

Incoming Mail and PHP this article covers the basics

Channel5

Hey dagon,

I've been working off that tutorial for a few hours now and I seem to be getting nowhere.

Here's what's happening:

When I run my bounce.php script by itself, it works.
My emails are coming back into my email account
I have #!/usr/bin/php on the first line of my bounce.php before <? etc. begins

As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions.

Any idea why it's not working yet?

dagon

use the full server path to the script

Channel5

I do have the full server path, the emails are coming back, but my bounce.php script doesn't seem to be running (it does execute if I run it directly from my browser).

dagon

how do you check if the script actully runs? make sure you have error checking on and you log them ,as you wont get any screen output if its run by an email, also check file permission of the script.

Channel5

I have a table in my admin section that displays emails send, emails bounced, emails opened, etc. So when I manually run bounce.php, it updates the bounce count.

I've also been checking my actual database tables.

But when I test bouncing an actual email, the count doesn't update, so I'm assuming that the script didn't run.

If the script runs manually, would I be save to assume that it should also run through an actual bounced email? Meaning, that the problem is somewhere between the email coming back to my inbox and the script executing?

dagon

It does sound most likely that its an issue with the pipe not running.

scrupul0us

Channel5;10904088 wrote:
I do have the full server path, the emails are coming back, but my bounce.php script doesn't seem to be running (it does execute if I run it directly from my browser).

in order for this to work like you want, the script will have continually run or be scheduled to run...

use cron to run the bounce script every minute and you should be set

dagon

scrupul0us;10904156 wrote:
in order for this to work like you want, the script will have continually run or be scheduled to run...

use cron to run the bounce script every minute and you should be set

No, it runs every time an email is piped to it

scrupul0us

dagon;10904180 wrote:
No, it runs every time an email is piped to it

well... stick that in my pipe and ill smoke it :p