Let me rephrase my question about building an e-commerce app for PayPal.
I want incoming e-mail to activate a program that looks at what's in the
e-mail, then does something (e-mailing a file) in response to what is in the
e-mail.
My hosting service uses qmail. What's the best language for my application?
PHP is my preferred language, but I realizing that it's designed to do stuff
when a user clicks on something on a webpage. I'm having trouble getting it
to activate upon receiving e-mail. Sending e-mail is no problem, it'll
select a file and mail it as an attachment.
Can I hire someone to write a CGI that responds to incoming e-mail, starts
my PHP script, and transfers the e-mail message to the PHP script as a text
string? I can use include() for the last part. If there's an O'Reilly book
I should buy, or documentation somewhere, or if someone can send me a script
to look at, I'd appreciate the shove up the learning curve. :-)
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David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> (and you say you don't need some of the more heavy-duty commercial
> softgoods payload delivery systems), I'd write a CGI in something like
> Perl, or use PHP, or use ColdFusion if I already had it on my server,
> or something like that. And then I'd use whatever MTA was installed
> on the server to accept and deliver the incoming, and to dispatch the
> outgoing.
>
> Qmail is a fine choice for MTA; it's fast, reliable, secure, and
> easy to interface to from a CGI application. If there's no MTA
> currently installed, or if it's time for a change, qmail would be a
> good choice.
