Postfix: Send email to PHP

Question

Greetings,

Anyone know of a good way to send an email to my postfix server which then opens a PHP script to process this email? I could do cron, but I\'d prefer to do it

Answer 1

You may be able to use a .forward, but probably the easiest way is to configure procmail.

Edit: here's a sample .procmailrc rule that may help:

:0 w
* ^From.*authorized@example.com
| php /path/to/script.php

If the email comes from authorized@example.com, then it will get passed to the php script. Since this is done from procmail which can be integrated with the mail server, the MySql setup shouldn't impact anything.