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want to receive email

please see
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27817846/using-php-I-can-send-email-phpmailer-mail-but-can-I-receive-email.html

how can this code be run on localhost

do I save as email.php and run from a browser
or does this work similar to paypal ipn where the data arrives to me

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php // /email_pipe/index.php


// THIS IS AN EMAIL PIPE SCRIPT.
// THIS SCRIPT IS STARTED AUTOMATICALLY FOR EACH MESSAGE.
// NOTE THAT THIS SCRIPT IS ABOVE THE /public_html/ DIRECTORY TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL EXECUTION


// --> HOW DO WE KNOW WHICH EMAIL MESSAGES GET SENT HERE?
// THIS SCRIPT RECEIVES MESSAGES SENT TO email_pipe@your.org
// CREATE AN EMAIL MAILBOX EXCLUSIVELY FOR AUTOMATED PROCESSING.
// SET UP AN EMAIL FORWARD FOR THAT MAILBOX IN cPANEL->EMAIL LIKE THIS:
// 1...5...10...15...20...25...
// |/home/{account}/email_pipe/index.php


// --> WHEN YOU UPLOAD, THIS SCRIPT WILL BE MARKED RW-R-R BUT THAT IS WRONG
// THIS SCRIPT MUST BE MARKED EXECUTABLE x0755
// YOU CAN USE FTP SOFTWARE TO CHMOD TO RWX-RX-RX


// --> NOTE THE FIRST LINE OF THIS SCRIPT MUST SAY #!/usr/bin/php -q STARTING IN COLUMN ONE
// 1...5...10...15...20...25...
// #!/usr/bin/php -q
// <?php ... PROGRAM CODE FOLLOWS


error_reporting(E_ALL);

// USE THE OUTPUT BUFFER - THIS DOES NOT HAVE BROWSER OUTPUT
ob_start();

// COLLECT THE INFORMATION HERE
$raw_email = NULL;

// TRY TO READ THE EMAIL FROM STDIN
if (!$stdin = fopen("php://stdin", "R"))
{
    echo "ERROR: UNABLE TO OPEN php://stdin " . PHP_EOL;
}

// ABLE TO READ THE MAIL
else
{
    while (!feof($stdin))
    {
        $raw_email .= fread($stdin, 4096);
    }
    fclose($stdin);
}


// REMOVE MULTIPLE BLANKS - AND OTHER PROCESSING AS MIGHT BE NEEDED
$raw_email = preg_replace('/ +/', ' ', $raw_email);

// SPEW WHAT WE GOT, IF ANYTHING, INTO THE OUTPUT BUFFER
var_dump($raw_email);

// CAPTURE THE OUTPUT BUFFER AND SEND IT TO SOMEONE ELSE VIA EMAIL
$buf = ob_get_contents();
mail ('you@your.org', 'EMAIL PIPE DATA', $buf);
ob_end_clean();

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Julian Hansen

This is a server script

Refer to the comments in the script

// NOTE THAT THIS SCRIPT IS ABOVE THE /public_html/ DIRECTORY TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL EXECUTION

This means that the script must not be browsable.

The script is supposed to be called by the OS when new mail arrives for a specific account.

The instructions give directions on how to pipe (|) the new mail to the script but this appears to be specific to the system it will be run on - reference to cpanel not sure if this will work in all hosting environments.

You need to check with your ISP on how to pipe email to a script (if they don't use CPanel).

What do you want to do with the email?

rgb192

ASKER

I never used this script

does it store email (text, database)

SOLUTION

Julian Hansen

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