Hi everyone,

This is a challenging app for me anyway.

I would like to capture email that is sent to a mailing list that I subscribe to and put it in a text file using my web server.

Here is what I have so far as far as specs:

1) I have a web server with a fixed IP address (no domain name) but accessible from outside.
2) I can program using PHP .

I want to setup the the maillist to forward email to my web server.
Is there some mini mail server that will capture email and throw it into a file.

Also can I send an email to an IP address? E.g. username@60.24.234.90

This way I don't have to register the server.

Any other ideas would be helpful

Thanks

have you looked at sendmail?
I haven't used sendmail as a mail server however it can be done. Then you give yourself an account on your shiny new mail server and you're ready to get all the spam you want at <new-account>@<server-ip-address>

you can then use the sendmail client to send mails from the website then too.

jpbarto

I thought about sendmail or exim. However I need something simple and not have to do any complicated setups.

Basically get the email and store it to some file as text. If its not from an email address of interest then toss it.
(So no spam for me!)

could you perhaps use an outside email address (such as an ISP account) and then use a command line app to retrieve and send emails? (the app would of course have to be made accessible through the web interface through manipulation via perl scripts or php).

Yes, that would make a lot of sense and sounds easier to do.

I could have it directed to yahoo email address and then use a POP email retrieving app. I guess I could have it check every few minutes for email.

Does anyone know of a Linux CLI utility app that can get email so I dont have to write my own?