Processing incomming email

[tikal]

Hi,

I want to learn how to process incomming emails with PHP. As my host doesn't allow IMAP could it be done another way?

Perhaps with sockets?

Or do I need to find a new host?

Thanks for any hints & urls.

[tikal]

So IMAP is the only way then?

[matbennett]

The IMAP command in PHP also handles reading of POP accounts (which I assume is what you are after).

I seem to remember seeing quite a good tutorial for this on webmonkey.com - could be worth a look;

[tikal]

My ISP doesn't allow IMAP so I was wondering if there was another way of processing incoming emails such as php socket functions (I can't see how, but was hoping for a work-around I hadn't thought of).

Example: If someone registers an 'account' and a confirmation email is sent by my site (easy using mail()) I want to be able to auto-enable the account when they reply to that email.