[wp-hackers] 8bit ASCII characters in mail-headers

[Sebastian Herp]

John Hewitt wrote:

>As for the daemon, not quite true.  At least in Postfix (qmail as well
>I think) you can direct via rules incoming emails to go to scripts. 
>PHP scripts aren't that hard after that. :)
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A bit off topic:
Wouldn't that require root access to the server? The only way a user can 
have scripts parsing his/her mails is afaik procmail (via 
~user/.procmailrc). Universities are offering this, most ISPs don't 
(because their mailservers seperated from their webservers and they 
don't allow direct login to their mailservers). So the majority of the 
users might not have the possibility to direct emails to scripts and as 
drdave pointed out (nobody really want to guide a computer newbie trough 
it) ...

IMAP, POP, MMS is the way to go ... the other ways of blogging (smtp, 
etc) can be easily done in under 10 lines of self-written scripts (best 
in perl, of course) and i bet those who want to do it that way would be 
able to write it themselves :-)

Sebastian