Email pipe

Hi all,

If you have a email server on Linux server, you can pipe email to a backend script easily.

This allows you to parse email or control server in email.

Take an example for PHP

echo 'test: "php -q |/your/script.php"' >> /etc/aliases

This command will need php cli support, in Ubuntu, enter

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

And then create a file called script.php start with #!

1. #!/usr/bin/php
2. <?php
3. // read in email from stdin
4. $fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
5. $email = "";
6. while (!feof($fd)) {
7. $email .= fread($fd, 1024);
8. }
9. fclose($fd);

The email content will be in $email, you can do whatever you like

If you are thinking of email command, add a line like

1. exec ($email);

If you are thinking of calling Drush without managing drupal init externally, you can 

1. exec ("drush your-custom-command " .$email);

Of coz, it needs certain privilege.

Enjoy ~

Keith