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Email Checker

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:18 pm
by Parody
I haven't been here for a while, but once again I'm stumped and I know someone here will be kind enough to help me out :)

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:

http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync ... /sync.aspx

This just shows that such a task is possible, yet I have no idea how to work out how to check emails using this. Any help is greatly appreciated :D

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:49 pm
by playgames
feyd | Please use

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eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([._\-]*[a-z0-9])*@([a-z0-9]+[-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]+.){1,63}[a-z0-9]+$",$email)???
or your pop3 server

If that "PHPMAILER" youshould be take.(ON SF.net)


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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:37 am
by Parody
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:21 am
by aceconcepts
I asked the same question some time back and here is the responses i got: viewtopic.php?t=73228&highlight=

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:24 pm
by Parody
My problem lies mostly with hotmail. I have found some examples with pop3, so that isn't really the problem. Thanks anyway though.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:12 am
by Parody
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 :(

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:53 am
by Michael A
Actually, Hotmail removed support for email clients, like Outlook, a few years back. Only old hotmail addresses can be accessed that way still.

I don't think you can do anything, at all, to get hotmail working anywhere but on their site. They've seen to that, I'm afraid.

Please let us know if you ever solve it. I'm curious.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:54 am
by Parody
I created a brand new hotmail account about 4 months ago and I can use Windows Live Mail Desktop with it. There must be someway of accessing the data