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+5 A:

Set up a pipe alias which forwards the message to the stdin of a script:

/etc/aliases:

sendmailhere:    |/usr/local/bin/myscript

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-03-17 22:10:41

and you may need to run the `newaliases` command

gnibbler 2010-03-17 22:26:47

How do some of the companies like FB and other sites do it? You know the ones where you can send a picture directly to an email address that's associated with your account. Imagine at any given time hundreds if not thousands are sending such emails. Would a script be able to handle that?

luckytaxi 2010-03-18 00:28:29

The MTA queues incoming messages until the script is ready to process them.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-03-18 00:33:34

Answer 2

+1 A:

For this project I would use a PHP email client such as IMAP for PHP. I would have a cron job to execute the PHP script every ~10min. It will pull down all messages in the inbox and reply as needed.

Rook 2010-03-17 22:16:23

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