email to mysql

[luiddog]

I've been working on this all day! Only to realize that imap isn't installed on my hoster.

What I'm trying to do is build an email client for a site so users can read emails sent to them. I think converting the emails to db entries would be the best way to go (if that's wrong let me know).

So I'm thinking...emails will be forwarded to a different site, that has imap installed, converted and then added to a database (via cron job) on the first site to be read by users. But I can't find any starter code to convert emails to mysql entries. Any ideas? Or is there just a better way? I need to come up with a way users can read emails from the site.

[etully]

There are already scores of solutions to this problem. It's far easier to install someone else's application (like Squirrel Mail) than to try to build your own. Unless you have some very specific custom need where you have to write your own, you'll save yourself hundreds of hours of work if you install a program like Squirrel Mail.

[Zook]

I agree with etully, Squirrelmail is a fine program and does the job perfectly well.

However, if you'd prefer to write your own code but don't know where to start then I suggest you download and take a look at PHPEmailArchiver by David Broker which really put me on the right path to imap functions in PHP.

Hope thats some help!