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Receiving mail

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:22 am
by gynophobia
i'm final semester student for my degree in computer science.. i'm studying and developing on email system now with PHP code for my project title "filtering mail with customize mail"

my question:
1. how to receive mail from the server side? i'm using my college internet server and from what i heard from my lecturer, he say i need to write a script to read the mail from the server side and then post it into database so particular user can extract it when they login.. can anyone help me on this script? :cry:

2. and i will do the filtering based on the incoming mail.. means i will filter all my mail according to the folder i created earlier (based on user preferences like abc@abc.com will go into ABC folder).. any idea on how to develop or code this section?

your help is much appreciated... :P

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:29 am
by feyd
  1. imap extension?
  2. that would vary wildly from what is being filtered, to how they want to filter it. Regular expressions will likely be used for a lot of it.

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:00 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I say this everytime the IMAP things comes up. Don't be fooled by the name. It does other protocols too such as POP3 and NNTP.

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:55 am
by gynophobia
i will use pop3 as my receiving part...

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:57 am
by gynophobia
i want to filter based on the receiver's name or domain... means i will let the user to create own folder (for example folder name ABC and set receiver ABC@ABC.com)... next time whenever ABC use ABC@ABC.com send mail to the user, the mail will directly point to the folder...

regard..