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My web host provides a webmail program that allows me to preview my email while it's still on the server and delete it there without ever downloading it. It has two problems: 1) for some reason probably having to do with the hosting company it frequently doesn't work and 2) even when it does work it's pretty amateurish. (I've seen other hosts that provide much more professional webmail applications, but I don't really want to change hosts at this point.)

I'm thinking about writing an application that read my email server and retrieve the "from address," "date" and "subject" for each email, list them, and allow me to selectively delete the emails on the server. Then I would fire up my email client and download the ones that were left.

The application could reside on my website (server) and be written in php (which would be my preference), or be on my local computer in which case my language of choice would be C/C++.

I have no clue how to address reading the mail server or deleting emails. Can anyone point me in the direction of what to look for?

EDIT: Unless someone knows of such a program that I can install? I've been on a search for a few weeks and have posted on several bulliten boards and no one seems to know of any such program, which is why I'm considering writing my own.
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Thanks, I've bookmarked that site. Lots of good stuff there.
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yep its excellent
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FYI: I downloaded and got SquirrelMail working. It resides on my portion of the server so I can control it, and it works quite nicely.

Thanks for the reference.
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