Creating Mailboxes

[Anon]

I'm a pretty adanced PHP programmer, and have
recently found this page in the manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-createmailbox.php
Iam intruiged by this. I have two questions:
1) Does this mean that you make an e-mail adress?
That would be awesome. Does it mean that if you create a box, it'll create an e-mail adress like
[e-mail]?
2)If it doesn't, what does it do? Can someone explain to me this function better?
Thanks,
EJ

[emcb_php]

Hi,

You can use the imap functions in php to create e-mail stors (mailboxes) on an imap/pop mail server. So if your imap/pop server domain is 'bloggs.com' you could create a mailbox for 'joe' and e-mail for '[e-mail]' would go to that mailbox.

This should help,

Elfyn

[emcb_php]

And as your an 'Advanced' php programmer should you not be able to spell it... 🙂

[Anon]

Dude, it was a typo. If you care about that kind of stuff you kind of suck.
EJ

[nashirak]

It was my understanding (and this is just from what I have been told) that all that the imap_createmailbox() function does is create new email "folders" (or files to store email in ), but it does not create a new user account. That is you cant use this funtion to give [e-mail] an email address there unless [e-mail] already has an account on the machine. You could however give joe a new "box" to put his mail in like, joe.trash or something. Now thats not to say you couldnt "jerry rig" something to where your mail server would know to put mail for [e-mail] to some file created by imap_createmailbox(), under some real users account. But (at least from what my understanding of the function) just because you create a new mailbox does not mean that when mail comes for that user it will know where to go. That you would have to setup yourself (ex. procmail under real users account puts mail in for the user).

But I could just be wrong 🙂 .