How can you read and forward emails with php? (POP server)

[faydra92]

anyone know?

[dalecosp]

Create a script/script-suite that does what Hotmail or Excite does. AAMOF, Excite is basically just PHP/JS/HTML, right?

One of the latter chapters of Welling/Thomson's "PHP and MySQL Web Development" does just this sort of thing. WarmMail, I think they called it.... :rolleyes:

🙂

[faydra92]

any code?

[dalecosp]

Yeah, the book is full of it 😉

Seriously, though, it does come with a CD of all the code. As you can imagine, something like Hotmail doesn't scale well to posting on a forum like this...

The PHP imap functions can handle POP3 servers as well, so one would write the server interface with those. User auth module might not be too difficult; it'd need db, of course. User management interfaces with db and SMTP server.

Simple in concept, I suppose; lots of coding to make it work. If I didn't want Squirrelmail or some such, I'd buy the book and start with their code....