email checking

[mark_php]

Excuse me I was wondering if there is some way that you can check your email through php I know you can send email but is there a way you could check it?

Thankyou

[robertjackson]

Yes there is.

Use IMAP and look at http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/musone19990207.php3.

If you want to do it automatically, A crontab could be used to check the mailbox on a regular basis by calling the appropriate PHP routine.

I use this method for e-mailing data, as an attachment, to one of my websites. If the e-mail has the right sender and some recognizable features, it is automatically parsed and loaded into the database.

Rob