I have a customer who has their own network, but their IT is not very skilled and they are depending on me to help them work out this issue.

Their OS is MS Windows XP Professional.

  1. I have a script that uses the imap_open() function to POP an email account. The email account is setup through Microsoft Exchange mail server, and the exchange server is on a separate mail server. Will this work?

  2. I am assuming that this setup requires a POP server located on the local pc (same server as the script) even though it is connecting remotely to an exchange server.

Also, php.ini points smtp to localhost. I have enabled the imap.dll in php.ini. Is there anything else in php.ini that I need to do?

This is what the imap_open statement looks like.

imap_open ("{mail.domain.com:110/pop3/notls}Inbox", "username", "password")

    Test out if it works. (It should.)

      It should do, since exchange has a built in IMAP service. My boss last year liked to receive emails on his phone, so I enabled IMAP for him and it worked very nicely

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