From: Alan Fullmer (lists-alanxnote.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 13:06:07 CDT

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Alan Fullmer wrote:
> Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>> * Alan Fullmer <lists-alanxnote.com>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a quick question regarding the pipe function in Postfix and
>>> the use of PHP as a mail sorter/parser. I've looked around and see
>>> many people have used PHP as a quick and dirty solution for putting
>>> mail data into a database.
>>>
>>> I am taking all incoming mail, parsing out headers and putting the
>>> mail into a MySQL database. The problem I have is, if the script
>>> cannot connect to the database, the script fails. What I want is to
>>> have this message return back into the normal mail queue with a
>>> temporary failure or something so it can retry at a later time
>>> without disappearing into never never land. The reason for this, is
>>> if there is a connection failure, or the database stops for some
>>> reason, I don't want these messages to be lost due to a script failure.
>>>
>>
>> exit 75
>>
>>
> this is what I have and it wasn't working. That's why I ask :/
>
> $dbc = mysql_connect (
> $host ,
> $name ,
> $pass
> ) or exit(75);
>
>
>
>
Sorry, it does seem to work now. I don't know why it requires ("75").
I added quotes and it works. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated!

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