[jon31]

Hello everyone,

A client has recently inquired if it is possible to do the following: Send an e-mail to a webserver, that will intercept it, read the contents (ie. subject, body) and then post those contents to a file or database, all via PHP.

Is this at all feasible?

Please let me know, or if you have any other suggestions. The reason for this method is because almost everyone can use their e-mail client, so this would be the easiest possible way for a user to submit information.

Thanks,
Jon Marus

[clam2000]

short answer: sortof

if you have an email box php can access it via imap or pop... and post it. What I don't belive php can do is to be the mail server itself. you should be able to find free (open source) email servers on sf.net, but most servers should already have them.

I'm not aware of any scripts that do exactly what you want, however take a look at a simple webmail script, which will contain code for taking the mail from the server. you can combine that with some simple commands to mysql, so that instead of displaying the email it will put it into mysql.

if you decide to do that you need to make sure that your mailserver can execute the script whenever a new message is sent.

so in conclusion it is not feasable to do it entirely in php (need a mailserver) but it can be done

--will

[MacOSR]

Originally posted by jon31:
Hello everyone,

A client has recently inquired if it is possible to do the following: Send an e-mail to a webserver, that will intercept it, read the contents (ie. subject, body) and then post those contents to a file or database, all via PHP.

Is this at all feasible?

Please let me know, or if you have any other suggestions. The reason for this method is because almost everyone can use their e-mail client, so this would be the easiest possible way for a user to submit information.

Thanks,
Jon Marus

Yes you can!