Inserting new entry into database via email

[kankohi79]

I have seen this at a small blogging website where members are allowed to add new entries to their journal via email. I believe they send it to some specified email address and add their user/pass as the first line of their text entry. This is quite useful if you are at work or behind a firewall and can only send emails. I was wondering if anyone has ideas about how such a system could be setup. I'm not looking for code necessarily, just semantics, but if you have built such a system, please feel free to post.

[sneakyimp]

you either need to trigger a script when mail arrives in a particular mailbox (i have no idea how to do this) OR you need to write a CRON job to periodically check a particular mailbox for mail and then process the mail (i also have no idea how to do that).

strictly speaking, this is not a question about databases, but about coding. try posting there.

[kankohi79]

k, thanks for your reply, I will re-post to the coding section.