Posted by Manuel Lemos on 04/16/05 06:03

Hello,

on 04/15/2005 11:17 PM Florin Andrei said the following:
> I want to write an application that's almost like a webmail, but not
> quite. It must receive emails from several mailing lists, store them in
> a database, allow making annotations, provide some kind of accounts with
> passwords, etc. It's quite specialized, it cannot be used as a webmail
> proper, nor a webmail can be used instead (and that's why i'm writing
> it).
>
> But i do not want to reinvent the wheel. Are there any PHP libraries or
> something to process email? E.g., for things like "here's the message,
> separate the headers from the body and do something different with each
> other item" or "find a discussion thread in these emails if i give you
> the headers of each message". Things like that.
>
> BTW, i will use PHP-4.3

You may want to start to use POP3 to fetch any messages that you want to
be processed. Here you may find one POP3 class for that purpose:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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