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magicrobotmonkey
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Mail management
My hotmail account just started being full all the time so I got a yahoo account. As soon as I got done switching all my major email needs to that I got a gmail invite. So now I'm looking at 3 email accounts (not counting several accounts with clietnts. Its not easy keeping track of all this.
I want to develop a mail managemen system which will allow me to connect to numerous html based email accounts and at the least check for new accounts and maybe ultimately develop it into a full fledged email system with all kinds of goodies.
My first question is: does anything like this exist?
MY second question: Is it possible (maybe with cURL) to connect to various email services (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) and retrieve that sort of thing?
any input?
I want to develop a mail managemen system which will allow me to connect to numerous html based email accounts and at the least check for new accounts and maybe ultimately develop it into a full fledged email system with all kinds of goodies.
My first question is: does anything like this exist?
MY second question: Is it possible (maybe with cURL) to connect to various email services (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) and retrieve that sort of thing?
any input?
Re: Mail management
It's perfectly possible but I wouldn't call it simple when it comes to 'full-fledged, with all kinds of goodies' and so on... Keep in mind that you would have to deal with html pages intended for live pesons, not for applicationsmagicrobotmonkey wrote: MY second question: Is it possible (maybe with cURL) to connect to various email services (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) and retrieve that sort of thing?
doesn't hotmail offer a pop3 access?
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magicrobotmonkey
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no, hotmail lets you use outlook express to access through html. both hotmail and yahoo will check pop3 accounts for you but they dont give you one.
I realize it would be alot of work - that's why I'll start off just with one page that will show any new emails or something of the sort..?
I realize it would be alot of work - that's why I'll start off just with one page that will show any new emails or something of the sort..?
What are you thinking? cURL into it or what> I dont really know cURL so I guess I'd better get learningIt's easy to implement as a quick hack though.
curl and preg_* is my best tools when I need to write something like this.
Just checked hotmail.com (never been there before), they have pretty complicated login sequence involving several third-party hosts such as loginnet.passport.com, passport.net etc. Nevertheless I'm pretty sure this sequence could be traced and all required cookies could be gathered (there's a lot of them)...
Just checked hotmail.com (never been there before), they have pretty complicated login sequence involving several third-party hosts such as loginnet.passport.com, passport.net etc. Nevertheless I'm pretty sure this sequence could be traced and all required cookies could be gathered (there's a lot of them)...
Yahoo.co.uk offers pop3 access, plus 100mb of storage, all for free.magicrobotmonkey wrote:both hotmail and yahoo will check pop3 accounts for you but they dont give you one.
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magicrobotmonkey
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hmmm.. evidently yahoo hates the US - its $19.99/year for pop access. Thinking about hotmail, is there an HTML mail standard or anything? In outlook express when setting up an account, you can choose HTML for type and put in your host. They obviously have hotmail in there already as its all M$ but maybe I could figure out that html thing and do it that way instead of messing with the complicated login
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http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=169789 <- Gmail POP interface
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