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Email triggers mailing list script

gregerly
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Hello All,

I'm not even sure this is possible, as I've never attempted this before. Is it possible to have an email that is sent from any email address (lets use Gmail for instance) to a specific email address, trigger a script that will take that email and send it to everyone on a specific mailing list?

So I send an email from my personal email to "mylist@mydomain.com". This somehow triggers a script to run that sends that email to my entire mysql DB where i've been collecting email addresses.

As I write this, I don't know that it will be this easy, but If anyone has any input I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Greg
Oct 23 '07 #1
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Atli
5,058 Expert 4TB
Hi Greg.

It can be done, although I haven't a clue how it is actually done.
I know that many websites (php.net for instance) use emails to add people to mailing lists and such. I can only assume that receiving the email triggers some script that adds you to a database.

If you can somehow get a copy of your email into a database, or you know the location where your email is being stored on your email server, you could probably set up a cron-job that executes a script every now and then to forward any mail to your list of clients. May be easier.
Oct 24 '07 #2

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