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email question

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:22 am
by jaymoore_299
I want to be able to download emails from my account using php into a text file so that each entry is delimited from each other like this:

***************************************
email 1
***************************************
email 2
...etc

I also want to have it so that php does not delete the emails unless I specify it to, so that all php would do is read the same emails that are in my outlook express. Any ideas on how if this is possible and how to implement this?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:32 pm
by josh
from my account
- what account?


wait, what? Are you trying to load your outlook contacts list into PHP?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:33 pm
by jaymoore_299
I mean email address . Not contacts, but emails themselves.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:04 am
by feyd
emails are a bit trickier, but your address book can be imported via exporting from Outlook your book in CSV format.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:57 am
by jaymoore_299
so it can't be done?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:15 am
by patrikG
jaymoore_299 wrote:so it can't be done?
google on the term "CSV"

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:19 pm
by ericburnard
Are you wanting to read all the emails you have already or all the ones you get from now on.

You could consider writing a macro that exports all emails received to a text file. also you can get it to then send mail from certain email addresses to different txt files... if you wanted :D

Eric