POP3 with PHP (it rhymes); File creation

plutarck

Two questions. The last one is a lot shorter and probably easy to answer.

First of all, is there any way I can get POP3 emails into PHP?

For instance, how do sites handle those automatic email confirmation things?

I know how they use mail() to send an email, but what do they use to see if someone replied to the email to confirm account creation?

EGroups (as an example) allows you just to "reply to this message to confirm your account".

What I want to do is be able to do is someone can email me with data, PHP (when activated by however I decide it should be activated) would take the email, parse it however I want, then do whatever is required (such as sending an email response, etc).

Another example is how Hotmail and Yahoo are able to display the contents of emails in the browser.

Anyone know how any of this can be done in PHP?

My second question is how do you create a file with PHP? Is there a specific permission that must be set on the directory, other than Write permission?

Related to this, how can you create a directory in PHP?

I recall hearing how to create files/directories in PHP, but it completely escapes me and I can't find any links on the subject.

Thanks in advance.

Anon

i think you must use IMAP, but please cofigure it first, compile and install it. there is alots of function you can use like imap_open etc.

to create a file offcourse we need a permission for that you can goto http://www.php.net to see the funtion related ! and for directory too ! it's easy and fun !

Anon

I'm just finishing up a PHP4 application called PHPost which is a full blown POP3 client. The source code will be freely available shortly. In the meantime you can test it out at http://webgadgets.com/phpost/

Mark

noise

re: e-mail ---
my isp doesn't have the imap functions available, so i had to use fsockopen(), fputs(), and related functions to read, and send, mail. it works, but it's not pretty.

-c

plutarck

Ah IMAP, of course. Which my mail server doesn't support of course L.

I'll be checking in periodically to see that PHPost. It sounds really interesting. Can't wait till it's released 😉

Thanks for the help!

Anon

this is like telnetting to port 25 and sending an e-mail manually.

--------------cut-------------
<?php
$mbox=fsockopen("whatever.com", 25);

fputs($mbox,"HELO whatever.com\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,"MAIL FROM:".$from."\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,"RCPT TO:".$to."\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,"DATA\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,"Subject:".$subject."\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,$message."\r\n");
fputs($mbox,"\r\n.\r\n");
echo fgets($mbox,512)." \n";

fputs($mbox,"QUIT\r\n");
fclose($mbox);
?>
--------------cut-------------

save that as a file, and set it as the form action [get || post] and make sure you have fields named to,from,subject,and message. works for me. good luck.

-noise

Anon

followup note:

for POP3 use port 110 instead of 25, and the syntax changes a little, but i have been successfull in doing this on a POP3 server as well. there is a command refernce for POP3 at :

http://www.shopthenet.net/publiclibrary/CIE/RFC/1725/8.htm

-noise