Using PHP to parse emails and print to specific printer

[Alex]

Hi everyone,

We're trying to write a script that will monitor 6 email addresses and
if an email arrives it will print to a specific network printer based
on the email address. So if the address is 'd**********@domain.com' it
will print to 'dept1ptr'. Each printer can be setup either on a
network print server or printed to directly via IP address... they're
all HP printers.

Any suggestions on a route to go with this? I'm very familiar with PHP
but I've never written a script to do something like this... and if PHP
isn't the right avenue to take, I'd love other options.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to approach this. Take
care,

Alex.

[wegenern]

Since your familiar with PHP, I would recommend you stay using the
language you know the most about. You could set this up using PHP CLI
(Command Line Interface) & IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions. Thus the ways
of approaching inital design depend on your platform (Linux, Windows)?

Other options... I would write it in Perl, running Fedora Core. But
that me.

Good Luck

-Nic

Alex wrote:

Hi everyone,

We're trying to write a script that will monitor 6 email addresses and
if an email arrives it will print to a specific network printer based
on the email address. So if the address is 'd**********@domain.com' it
will print to 'dept1ptr'. Each printer can be setup either on a
network print server or printed to directly via IP address... they're
all HP printers.

Any suggestions on a route to go with this? I'm very familiar with PHP
but I've never written a script to do something like this... and if PHP
isn't the right avenue to take, I'd love other options.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to approach this. Take
care,

Alex.

[NC]

Alex wrote:

>
We're trying to write a script that will monitor 6 email
addresses and if an email arrives it will print to a specific
network printer based on the email address.

What OS are you planning to run it on?

Cheers,
NC

[Jerry Stuckle]

Alex wrote:

Hi everyone,

We're trying to write a script that will monitor 6 email addresses and
if an email arrives it will print to a specific network printer based
on the email address. So if the address is 'd**********@domain.com' it
will print to 'dept1ptr'. Each printer can be setup either on a
network print server or printed to directly via IP address... they're
all HP printers.

Any suggestions on a route to go with this? I'm very familiar with PHP
but I've never written a script to do something like this... and if PHP
isn't the right avenue to take, I'd love other options.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to approach this. Take
care,

Alex.

Alex,

You have two possibilities, depending on the mail server you're using.

If the mailserver allows piping, you can pipe the incoming mail to the
script with the appropriate recipient (details depend on the server).

If not, you can set up a cron job to monitor the queue for input. For
instance, if it is a POP3 server, you could open a socket to port 110
(POP3 port), enter the userid and password and see if there is any
incoming mail. If there is, receive and process it. A bit complicated,
but not too bad.

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