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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:43:03 +0200
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Liz Tuddenham:

> I appreciate that e-mails can be sent from a server by php, but Is there
> any way of receiving  them by php? 

Yes - implement your own mailserver.

Seriously: No - you should not use PHP to receive e-mails. Use a server
like Postfix to reveive the mail and PHP to read what Postfix stored.
You may even combine Postfix and Dovecot and use IMAP to access the mail
storage of Dovecot.


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Arno Welzel
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