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Re: Receiving e-mail by PHP

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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.

You possibly could write an entire local "Mail Delivery Agent" in PHP, to
deliver email locally, but this would only be a programming exercise, as
there are a wide variety of standard, usable, open MDAs available, and
the work of an MDA is not trivial. But, an MDA only delivers mail locally;
to receive email from the outside, you need an "Mail Transfer Agent" (or
MTA).

You might be able to write an entire local "Mail Transfer Agent" in PHP,
to receive and process external email, but this would again only be a
programming exercise, as there are a wide variety of standard, usable,
open MTAs available, and the work of an MTA is even harder than an MDA.

On the other hand, you can definitely write a web-paged "Mail User Agent"
in PHP to interface a webpage with your existing MDA so that PHP can
retrieve any already-received emails from the MDA (typically using either
the POP or IMAP protocols. There are a few of these PHP-based MDA's
available; SquirrelMail and RoundCube are good examples.


HTH
-- 
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
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