Received E-mail Triggers PHP Script

[Skotlake]

I was wondering if any of you know about a way to have a received e-mail trigger a PHP script on a server.  What I want to do is to BCC my web server on the e-mails I send my customers so that the e-mail can be logged in my CRM database.  Does anyone know of a way to do this, or at the least, a good resource to find information on the topic? 

 

I've tried searching many times, but can't find an appropriate search string--all the search engines seem to think I'm merely intending to write an e-mail script.

[kenrbnsn]

You have to search on "piping email php".

 

If your script is running on Linux/Unix, you set up a forwarding email address, so incoming email will start your script. Your script then will parse the incoming email and do "the right thing".

 

I've written a number of these scripts myself. If you're running on a cPanel host, I can help.

 

Ken

[Skotlake]

Thanks for the advice.  Unfortunately, my host, 1and1, uses a proprietary system and not cPanel.  I looked up and tried to use a tutorial on evolt (http://www.evolt.org/article/Incoming_Mail_and_PHP/18/27914/index.html) that gave instructions on how to do it using Sendmail but it looks like my server doesn't pay any attention to the .forward files.  Is there something else I can try?

[kenrbnsn]

Another way to do this, would be to set up a email address to send the information to and use the IMAP functions to retrieve and parse the emails. You would have to use a cronjob to start the script. Once the script is started it would check to see if there is any new messages, and then process them.

 

Ken