Re: Pipe To A Program

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On 12 Nov 2011, at 07:38, Ron Piggott wrote:

> I am looking at CPanel’s “E-Mail filtering” option “Pipe To A Program”
> http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/FilterOptions
> 
> The goal I am working towards is saving the contents of an incoming e-mail address into a mySQL table.  I am thinking of trying to program a customer contact center application.
> 
> Does anyone know what variable the e-mail message is assigned within the context of “Pipe To A Program”?  Is there a way to find out?  I can’t figure this out.  
> 
> What I have tried so far is below:
> 
> ===
> #!/usr/local/bin/php -q
> <?php
> 
> 
> foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $val) {
>     $$key = $val;
> 
> $email_body .= "KEY: " . $key . "\r\n";
> $email_body .= "VAL: " . $val . "\r\n";
> $email_body .= "\r\n";
> 
> }
> 
> mail( user@domain , "Test Pipe To Program" , $email_body );
> ===
> 
> The mail command works, but the e-mail message body is empty.   I am at a loss of how to proceed.


When you pipe email to a program the mail server literally does that - it pipes the contents of the email to the stdin of your program.

In PHP you would then read the email contents like so...

    $email = file_get_contents('php://stdin');

Note that what you get is the raw email, complete with headers. When I do this in PHP I use the Mailparse extension: http://php.net/book.mailparse

Here's a (somewhat over-complicated) example from an old version of TwitApps when I processed Twitter email notifications: https://gist.github.com/1360403

-Stuart

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