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I'm trying to make an email 'checker', its not an integral part of my personal project, but it won't be complete without it. The idea is just to show how many new emails the user has in their inbox and then allow them to navigate to their inbox, preferably without entering their username and password. I would like this to work for all types of email addresses including hotmail, something I know is widely accepted to be damn near impossible to receive email via php with. I know this is possible with pop3, but its with hotmail the problem lies with. Hotmail used to use httpmail as a protocol to allow programs such as outlook to access its services, surely it's possible to use php to communicate using this protocol. I'm not sure windows live mail still uses this protocol though. I use Windows Live Mail, the desktop program to send and receive emails and the server url for the account is:
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I looked at the PHPMAILER site, it doesn't seem to support http mail, such as hotmail. Is there any way at all I can do this? I don't want to read the messages, I just want to check how many are there. This should be quite easy.
Any ideas anyone? I would really like to be able to include this feature. If it doesn't include hotmail then I might aswell forget about the whole thing