Email Piping

[weee]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am having an interesting problem trying to pipe emails.  When I send an email that contains html or has an attachment, my script is given a null value.  After doing a little bit of research, I found this post and this is the exact same issue that I seem to be having with my application: http://www.computing.net/answers/webdevel/email-piping-format-php/1072.html

 

Does anyone know of a solution to allow the extra content such as the html or attachments?

Thank you in advance!

weee

[WatsonN]

Add this header to your email script and it will allow html

$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

 

This is a good article to show you how to do HTML and attachments.

http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php#attachment

[weee]

Actually I think this problem might be caused by something else.  If I have this as my php file:

#!/usr/bin/php5 -q
<?php
$input = '';
$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
while (!feof($stdin))
{
$input .= fread($stdin, 8192);
}
fclose($stdin);

$file = fopen('blah.txt', 'r');
fwrite($file, 'this is some text');
fclose($file);

?>

 

Nothing will be written.  Now what is weird is if I execute the script via my web browser (http://localhost/cli.php) the blah.txt file is written.  I have chmoded the file to 777 to allow all users to try to write with this file...  What is crazy though is I enabled error logging on my server and it isn't giving me any errors or warnings about the permissions.  I am 100% sure it is executing because I can use the mail() function to fire off a test message.

 

Any ideas?

Regards,

weee

[weee]

Sorry for the double post but I have narrowed this down to this being something regarding email piping and not the script itself.  I can execute the script via webbrowser and CLI and everything works.  The script only doesn't write the file when it is actually executed when the email is forwarded to the php script.

 

Could someone please move this to the linux section?

Thank you,

weee

[Pikachu2000]

Could someone please move this to the linux section?

Thank you,

weee

 

Sure thing. Done.

[jdavidbakr]

Look at http://code.google.com/p/php-mime-mail-parser/ for a possible solution - I use this in a PHP script that handles incoming mail piped to it.