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Hello all,

I have a question that has completely stumped me! I have some decent background with websites, PHP and MYSQL. I'm wondering how I would go about having an incoming email activate a server side script. An example would be like all the social networking sites (Twitter, MySpace and Facebook). You can send an email or txt msg to a phone number (email address) and it will update your "status" on their sites. I'm looking to do something similar except not update your status just trigger some other events. I'm not sure how I would go about doing this where it be cron jobs or what. I was originally thinking a PHP script to fetch an email or something but at this point I'm just lost and could use any guidance you have to offer!

Thanks in advance!!