Re: PHP and connection to mail account

Stut wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: >> Angelo Zanetti wrote: >> >>> Do u know if its possible with PHP to receive a mail or connect to a >>> mail box and do something with an incomming email ? I see there is that >>> imap_open() but also there are sockets. >>> >> >> indeed - basically use whatever you want! - I would suggest have a >> search online, >> there are quite a lot of mailbox related classes/libs/etc as well as >> fully featured >> php webmail packages that you might be able to scrounge some useful >> code out of. >> >> an alternative could be to configure your mail server to pipe the >> incoming >> email directly to your script (i.e. don't deliver it to a mailbox at >> all) - >> this has the advantage that your script doesn't have to run as a >> daemon (or via cron) >> in order to poll the given mailbox - it simply recieves the email on >> stdin >> whenever an email arrives. > > Just to add something to consider... which way you do it can depend on > what your script will be doing and how many emails you expect to > receive. If the script is intensive and/or you are expecting a lot of > emails you're better off cron'ing a script to deal with them otherwise > your server could end up bogged down by those processes. I can't speak > for other MTAs but I do know that with Postfix you can apply a limit to > the number of simultaneous processes that are started if you implement > it in the transport map. good point! > > -Stut >