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email client confusion

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:40 am
by gaurav_sting
hi everyone,

i want to make a email system in php (like hivemail),
but i dont know where to start,

also i have a couple of doubts.


first - i am able to retreive mails using pop and imap, but for security reasons, i have heard that it shud be on ssl, no how can i use ssl and what it the exact technique for it.

also what happens in the background when some mail comes, or the user deletes it, --- background means in the database. What is the database structure used generally and what is methodology for managing the mails in the background.

i am also very confused for the start, i dont know where to start the system.

any help is highly appreciable.
Thank you
GAurav

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:24 am
by launchcode
Are you sure you want to even do this?!

As for SSL - it's just a server side certificate - it doesn't effect your PHP scripts at all other than the fact you need to pass values to https://www... rather than http:// - that's it, for the most part you can ignore the fact you are running over SSL entirely.

As for mailing handling in the background - geez, where to start. There is so much to do, this isn't an "easy" thing to tackle - what kind of web server do you have? What support for modifying mail delivery to external processes etc?