I have a tracking script which emails me whenever I have a new customer. The emails contain several fields which I would like to be entered into a database.
What's the simplest way to achieve this?

I have very little experience with databases and don't currently have one set up but my server has MySql so it would be logical to use that but my options are open. I'd appreciate any suggestions and links to relevant information or products.

Thanks

You've got two choices;

1: Add a PHP script to parse incoming mail, syphon out the addresses them INSERT them into a mysql db, or...

2: If you have access to the tracking scripts, they can send the info directly to a script to insert the info into a MySQL db.

Thanks for the input.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I don't just want the email addresses. The body of the emails contains form field data (eg Field1: data Field2: data etc.) which is what I want to get into a database (as well as the email address).

I do have access to the tracking scripts and guessed that it could be done that way but I don't know how to make the appropriate additions to the code (I'm not even sure which language the script is in!).