cPanel mail filer: pip to program

[schweickism]

Hi,

Sorry this isn't the right board, but I'm waiting for access to the customer-only sections.

I'm trying to use the cPanel mail filter to pipe e-mails to a program, but I can't find any documentation on how to actually get that input.

I'm piping it to a php file and trying to use fread(STDIN) and it's not picking up anything, so IDK what else to try.

[regentronique]

You should pipe this way :

| php -q /home/YourAccountName/public_html/cgi-bin/YourScriptName.php

Inside the YourScriptName.php :

PHP Code:

#!/usr/bin/php 
<?php 

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

//email processing

?>

[schweickism]

Thanks, but I'm still not getting anything.

It looks like the file never gets executed. This is the exact value for the program to pipe to:

| php -q /home/frampton/public_html/cgi-bin/testpipe.php

Then the contents of testpipe.php are the following:

PHP Code:

<?php
$msg = '';
$input = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
while(!feof($input)) {
$msg .= fread($input, 1024);
}
fclose($input);
$output = fopen('testfile.txt', 'w');
fwrite($output, "TEST RESULT:\n");
fwrite($output, $msg);
fclose($output);
?>

testfile.txt has permissions set to 777. But after I send an e-mail to the proper address, that file doesn't even contain "TEST RESULT" it's still just blank.

[GvilleRick]

Try setting permissions to 755. The php file should have permissions set to 644.

[schweickism]

Originally Posted by GvilleRick

Try setting permissions to 755. The php file should have permissions set to 644.

That doesn't seem to work either...

-rwxr-xr-x  1 frampton frampton    0 Jun 11 14:03 testfile.txt*
-rw-r--r--  1 frampton frampton  421 Jun 11 14:15 testpipe.php

[GvilleRick]

I ran a couple of tests on my dedicated server. I added the code your gave with #!/usr/bin/php added as the first line to a file called test.php and put it in my /home/username/ folder with permissions set to 755. Mail sent to that address was written to the file. I did not have to create the file, the server created it when the message was received. Permissions on that file (testfile.txt) were set to 644 by the system.

I also tried creating a filter based on the Subject line and it worked as well. The only glitch I saw was that in both cases a Mail Delivery Failed message was sent to the email address I sent the message from.

[schweickism]

Thanks a lot for trying that. It turned out that my problem had to do with the filter itself (I just got done talking to HG support). The regex option in the filter wasn't working for some reason... I'm not sure what could have been wrong with it because it was very simple:

/MSG[0-9]+/

Edit: For the record, don't use /slashes/ around your regular expressions in cPanel. Removing them fixed it... would have been nice if CP would have released a little documentation on that -.-

[regentronique]

The cPanel Perl regex interpretation is somewhat problematic.

They have been informed of this problem for quite a while...

[regentronique]

Originally Posted by GvilleRick

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The only glitch I saw was that in both cases a Mail Delivery Failed message was sent to the email address I sent the message from.

This is because of the return code of your script...