We have used procmail and PHP combination to achieve this for our department mail management and associated workflow.
Sendmail invokes procmail which delivers the mail to the normal inbox and invokes a PHP script thru LYNX The PHP script opens an IMAP connection to the inbox, reads the mail and puts in a text data col in the database. This is working successfully for all our 5 departments and over 500-1000 mails a day. Except for big attachments where we have respective limitations (to some extent configurable - maxpacketsize options etc) in PHP as well as MYSQL. vikash -----Original Message----- From: William R. Mussatto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using MySQL to store email First, which MYSQL, the program or the company. Assuming you mean a mysql database I think you will need to run it through a program which will parse it and load it into the database tables. > Does anyone know where I can read more on how to redirect incoming email > (via Sendmail) into MySQL for a given email address? > I understand that I can use "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | /path/mysql ..." in the > /etc/aliases file to do this, but I would like to see if anyone has had > success with this. I also would like to know if this is not as simple > as I may think. > > Thanks for any thoughts on this, > Jeff > > > > > > William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 FAX. 909-608-7061 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
