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Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP

From Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP
Date 2022-04-04 15:27 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:02:56 +0000, Stefan Froehlich wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:19:10 Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:51:02 +0100, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> I appreciate that e-mails can be sent from a server by php, but Is there
>>> any way of receiving  them by php?
> 
>> Not easily.
> 
> Depends on how you define "receive".
> 
>> You possibly could write an entire local "Mail Delivery Agent" in
>> PHP, [...]
> 
> Perhaps Liz only wants to process incoming emails with PHP. In this
> case it is not at all necessary to implement a delivery agent, but
> piping emails (by whatever means) from an existing mail agent into
> the PHP script would suffice.

What you describe is, in effect, a "Mail User Agent" (or MUA), and 
(as I said) an MUA is relatively easy to create with PHP.

> Bye,
>   Stefan




-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"

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Receiving e-mail by PHP liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2022-04-04 13:51 +0100
  Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-04-04 13:19 +0000
    Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Stefan+Usenet@Froehlich.Priv.at (Stefan Froehlich) - 2022-04-04 15:02 +0000
      Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-04-04 15:27 +0000
        Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Stefan+Usenet@Froehlich.Priv.at (Stefan Froehlich) - 2022-04-04 15:49 +0000
          Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2022-04-04 17:47 +0100
            Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Jerry Stuckle <stuckle.jerry@gmail.com> - 2022-04-04 19:38 -0400
              Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2022-04-05 09:09 +0100
                Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Jerry Stuckle <stuckle.jerry@gmail.com> - 2022-04-05 12:55 -0400
                Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2022-04-05 18:36 +0100
                Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Jerry Stuckle <stuckle.jerry@gmail.com> - 2022-04-05 15:48 -0400
  Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Paul Herber <paul@paulherber.co.uk> - 2022-04-04 16:35 +0100
  Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2022-04-06 18:43 +0200
  Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP zeneca <pasIci@ailleur.fr> - 2022-04-07 09:17 +0200
  Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP Kristjan Robam <kristjanrobam1983@outlook.com> - 2023-10-14 04:01 -0700

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