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Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP

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On 4/4/2022 12:47 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Stefan Froehlich <Stefan+Usenet@Froehlich.Priv.at> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:27:59 Lew Pitcher wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Ok. In my eyes a MUA is reading some mail box on request of it's
>> user (pull action) while piping into a (PHP- or other) script is a
>> push action. But as far as the processing is concerned there is
>> indeed no difference.
> 
> Thanks for all the replies.  I was almost expecting to find it was
> impossible, but now you have given me some guidance on where to look and
> what to search for..  I have never gone into this in any depth before,
> so it will involve quite a lot of work just getting to grips with the
> basics, which is something I was reluctant to spend a lot of time on if
> there wasn't likely to be any outcome.
> 
> Your replies were encouraging, so I'll go away and do my research.
> 

The real question her is - what are you trying to do exactly?  Do you 
need a script to receive email from external sources?  That would be an 
MTA (Mail Transport Agent), which as others have indicated is very 
complicated.

If you want a script to get all emails as they come in, then as 
indicated you can pipe the email to a PHP script to process it.  This 
requires a modification to your MTA, which may or may not be possible 
depending on your platform.

The other option is to process the email when it has been received and 
is awaiting delivery on you to retrieve it.  In that case you need to 
handle the POP3 or IMAP interface, depending on what your server uses. 
There are PHP interfaces for both as well as scripts to do some things 
like create a web interface for IMAP processing.

So if you can expand on exactly what you're trying to do we can help more.

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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
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