using php mail to forward email?

[Craig Hurley]

Hello,

us**@x.com receives an email from us**@a.com. I want to forward that
email to us**@y.com. I want the contents/header to remain intact, with
the exception of adding "X-Forwarded-For". In other words, when
us**@y.com received the email, it will be from us**@a.com, but will
contain a reference that it was forwarded by us**@x.com.

I'm piping all email destined for us**@x.com to a php script. I've seen
some very complicated examples of using the mail function and I'm unsure
how to use the mail function to do what I need. I'm relatively new to
php so any advice is appreciated.

Thank you,
Craig.
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php

// get email from stdin
$fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email = "";
while (!feof($fd)) {
$email .= fread($fd, 1024);
}
fclose($fd);

// forward it to us**@y.com
// ???
?>

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode, <9m************ *******@news.in digo.ie>, the lovely and
talented Craig Hurley broadcast on comp.lang.php:

Hello,

us**@x.com receives an email from us**@a.com. I want to forward that
email to us**@y.com.

Why, exactly, don't you do that in your mail server? It's the right tool
for this job.

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Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/ <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
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[ELINTPimp]

On Oct 14, 5:08 pm, Lars Eighner <use...@larseig hner.comwrote:

In our last episode, <9mvQi.22601$j7 [e-mail] digo.ie>, the lovely and
talented Craig Hurley broadcast on comp.lang.php:

Hello,
[e-mail] receives an email from [e-mail]. I want to forward that
email to [e-mail].

Why, exactly, don't you do that in your mail server? It's the right tool
for this job.

--
Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/ <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
Countdown: 463 days to go.
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If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like he wants to be able to
spoof the email forward to look like the original sender sent it. I
think that if this is a legitimate question, if you aren't looking to
be, you will soon find yourself a SPAM hub. Essentially, you could
take an email from person1, change the contents, and send it to
another person with it looking like it came from person1.

Please don't provide an answer to this for the script kiddies trolling
usenet.

[Craig Hurley]

On 14/10/2007 22:08, Lars Eighner wrote:

Why, exactly, don't you do that in your mail server? It's the right tool
for this job.

There's more to what I'm planning to do than I included in my original
post. Rather than over complicate the original post, I've included only
the details that relate to my question regarding mail forwarding using php.

Regards,
Craig.

[Craig Hurley]

On 14/10/2007 22:56, ELINTPimp wrote:

If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like he wants to be able to
spoof the email forward to look like the original sender sent it. I
think that if this is a legitimate question, if you aren't looking to
be, you will soon find yourself a SPAM hub. Essentially, you could
take an email from person1, change the contents, and send it to
another person with it looking like it came from person1.

Please don't provide an answer to this for the script kiddies trolling
usenet.

j3sus_chr1st on a bike!

Rather than deliver mail directly to my inbox, I'm forwarding it to a
gmail account. gmail then kindly filters virus and spam. gmail then
forwards mail back the original email account, where it gets piped to my
php script.

The php script parses the email for a header which indicates that it's
been forwarded from a gmail account. If it finds that header which
gmail added, it delivers it to my inbox, otherwise, the mail gets
forwarded to gmail.

There are 2 reasons for doing this: 1) mail backup 2) extra antivirus
and antispam.

I didn't want to include these extra details because they're not really
relevant to my original question and would make it easier for people to
go off topic (how wrong I was!). Its great to see moral people out
there on the internet, but please don't jump the gun on a whim!!!

Now please, can we get back on topic: using php to forward email...

Regards,
Craig.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Craig Hurley wrote:

On 14/10/2007 22:56, ELINTPimp wrote:

>If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like he wants to be able to
spoof the email forward to look like the original sender sent it. I
think that if this is a legitimate question, if you aren't looking to
be, you will soon find yourself a SPAM hub. Essentially, you could
take an email from person1, change the contents, and send it to
another person with it looking like it came from person1.

Please don't provide an answer to this for the script kiddies trolling
usenet.

j3sus_chr1st on a bike!

Rather than deliver mail directly to my inbox, I'm forwarding it to a
gmail account. gmail then kindly filters virus and spam. gmail then
forwards mail back the original email account, where it gets piped to my
php script.

The php script parses the email for a header which indicates that it's
been forwarded from a gmail account. If it finds that header which
gmail added, it delivers it to my inbox, otherwise, the mail gets
forwarded to gmail.

There are 2 reasons for doing this: 1) mail backup 2) extra antivirus
and antispam.

I didn't want to include these extra details because they're not really
relevant to my original question and would make it easier for people to
go off topic (how wrong I was!). Its great to see moral people out
there on the internet, but please don't jump the gun on a whim!!!

Now please, can we get back on topic: using php to forward email...

Regards,
Craig.

Craig,

Lars is correct. You should do this in your mail server. You won't be
able to forward with PHP and keep the previous headers intact.

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[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<Dj************ *******@news.in digo.ie>,
the lovely and talented Craig Hurley
broadcast on comp.lang.php:

On 14/10/2007 22:08, Lars Eighner wrote:

>Why, exactly, don't you do that in your mail server? It's the right tool
for this job.

There's more to what I'm planning to do than I included in my original
post. Rather than over complicate the original post, I've included only
the details that relate to my question regarding mail forwarding using php.

If you are doing some more than you said, then you are up to no good.

An honest person would do this in his mail server.
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Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/ <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
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[Craig Hurley]

On 14/10/2007 23:38, Lars Eighner wrote:

If you are doing some more than you said, then you are up to no good.

An honest person would do this in his mail server.

Lars, please see my reply to ELINPimp.. what I'm trying to do is not a
basic forwarding rule.

I'm on shared hosting and I'm trying to do something a bit more advanced
than the hosting providers control panel provides for. They do however
allow users to pipe email to a script.

Is this newsgroup for discussing how to forward mail on a dedicated or
shared mail server? No.

Is this newsgroup for discussing php (including mail())? Yes.

Kindly stay on topic.

Regards,
Craig.

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<5_************ *******@news.in digo.ie>,
the lovely and talented Craig Hurley
broadcast on comp.lang.php:

On 14/10/2007 23:38, Lars Eighner wrote:

>If you are doing some more than you said, then you are up to no good.

An honest person would do this in his mail server.

Lars, please see my reply to ELINPimp.. what I'm trying to do is not a
basic forwarding rule.

I read it. What you admit to is wanting to make google do your filtering
for you. Obviously you this is not just your personal mail, because you
wouldn't need forged headers for that. No you are obviously reselling
services and do not want your users to realize you are sending their mail
through googles filters and ripping off processing time from google for your
own profit.

--
Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/ <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
Countdown: 463 days to go.
What do you do when you're debranded?

[Craig Hurley]

On 15/10/2007 11:32, Lars Eighner wrote:

I read it. What you admit to is wanting to make google do your filtering
for you. Obviously you this is not just your personal mail, because you
wouldn't need forged headers for that. No you are obviously reselling
services and do not want your users to realize you are sending their mail
through googles filters and ripping off processing time from google for your
own profit.

Lars, you're funny. Do try to get a hold on your imagination. When
you're finished trying to get that imagination under control, have a
look at these:
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=...ter+spam&meta=

The very first link (from mboffin.com) is the most informative. It's
the process in that blog that I'm trying to replicate using a php
script. Unfortunately that particular bloggers site is down at the
moment, but it's a popular site so I'm sure it won't be long before it's
back up.

Finally, try to stay on topic please: using php mail to forward email?
I realise you may find this hard, what with your over-active imagination.

Have a nice day,
Craig.