Email Checker
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:18 pm
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
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