Capturing incoming Emails via PHP or whatever...
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:00 pm
Time for me to ask a question:
Given that I have devloped a PHP/MySql based internet forum:
A.) Users can set preferences to recieve posts via:
I email
II web only
III via digest (a chron script that trips off a PHP script)
B.) This is all well and good, providing the host ever does the chron script
correctly.
C.) And my main question - currently all replies have to be via web.
All users and posts are kept in a database. What must I do to enable
people to respond to the posts via email, have the posts trigger something to put them into the database and be viewable online, and also send the replies via email to those set with the email option - sort of like Yahoo groups.
If I have asked this question before, I apologize!
Any thoughts appreciated and welcome.
Phil J.
Given that I have devloped a PHP/MySql based internet forum:
A.) Users can set preferences to recieve posts via:
I email
II web only
III via digest (a chron script that trips off a PHP script)
B.) This is all well and good, providing the host ever does the chron script
correctly.
C.) And my main question - currently all replies have to be via web.
All users and posts are kept in a database. What must I do to enable
people to respond to the posts via email, have the posts trigger something to put them into the database and be viewable online, and also send the replies via email to those set with the email option - sort of like Yahoo groups.
If I have asked this question before, I apologize!
Any thoughts appreciated and welcome.
Phil J.