PipeEmailToPage

[MarkE]

Season's greetings ProcessWirers. My gift to you is a new module called PipeEmailToPage which you can get from GitHub here: https://github.com/MetaTunes/PipeEmailToPage/tree/main. Fairly 'alpha' at the moment, but I have been using it successfully on a live site for a week or so. I'll test it some more before releasing it to the modules library.

I designed this as a replacement for ProcessEmailToPage, which relies on the flourish library which is no longer maintained. It also has a fundamentally different method of operation in that it is 'push' rather than 'pull'. The email addresses are created 'virtually' in the sense that they are not necessarily real email addresses but are held in pages whose templates are linked in the module config.

The module works when emails are piped to a script (emailpipe.php) on the server which processes the email and creates the page. The pipe needs to be defined in your hosting service's cPanel or similar. If you define the pipe in the 'Default address' in cPanel, all emails sent to the domain will be processed unless they are specified separately. The 'to' addresses will be matched against the email addresses defined in 'parent' pages holding the virtual addresses. If you define the pipe for a specific email address, only emails sent to that address will be processed (but you can define the same pipe for multiple addresses).

A major advantage of the module is that the email addresses can be defined entirely within PW. This means that they can be maintained by someone with no access to cPanel once the developer has set up the pipe.

Further details are in the readme.

I suggest you test thoroughly before using (and take careful note of the 'points to note' in the readme). Turn on some of the logging statements if you wish. Also, check your mail delivery in cPanel to look for errors there. If you report errors to me, I will do my best to hunt them, but please include as much info as possible. I will also be grateful for any suggested code improvements and/or PRs.

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