Creating a basic PHP/MySQL email script, what's involved?
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:08 pm
I'm going to have to eventually create a basic email system sooner or later. Right now I've diverted my live site's email to Google (700MB of literally almost nothing but total crap that just kept piling up over the past half year). I'm not planning on doing anything more then creating a web GUI for seeing a list of emails for a specific account and of course reading them when I do get around to it. However if it's not that difficult I wouldn't mind taking on the challenge now or relatively soon.
First what do I need to share about my server/website's settings (if anything) to help get a better game plan mapped out? I know for example that email was being stored in a directory below the public_html directory for my site as tiny little files. I never bothered to read many of them because the vast majority of them were spam (badly targeted spam at that!) I can easily allow the mail to come back to the host instead of directing it to Google though I'll also have to set something up to delete all the email going to non-existent accounts...is that rather difficult to do as well? Do I have to mess with any cronjobs?
...I'm posting in this forum mostly because I'm currently pondering doing this and I'm mostly interested in a visual such as...
Step 1 --> Step 2 --> Step 3 --> Step 4 --> Step 5 --> Step 6 --> Step 7...etc.
What else might I have to take in to consideration for setting up a basic email reader for my site?
First what do I need to share about my server/website's settings (if anything) to help get a better game plan mapped out? I know for example that email was being stored in a directory below the public_html directory for my site as tiny little files. I never bothered to read many of them because the vast majority of them were spam (badly targeted spam at that!) I can easily allow the mail to come back to the host instead of directing it to Google though I'll also have to set something up to delete all the email going to non-existent accounts...is that rather difficult to do as well? Do I have to mess with any cronjobs?
...I'm posting in this forum mostly because I'm currently pondering doing this and I'm mostly interested in a visual such as...
Step 1 --> Step 2 --> Step 3 --> Step 4 --> Step 5 --> Step 6 --> Step 7...etc.
What else might I have to take in to consideration for setting up a basic email reader for my site?