Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/11/06 02:44

Bernie Woodham wrote:
> Hello. I have about 10 - 12 different e-mail accounts with Yahoo!, Hotmail
> and other services. I use these to store sensitive information, letters and
> documents. These accounts must be logged into at least once every 30 days
> otherwise the service will terminate the e-mail account and delete any
> contents stored there. There have been times where I failed to log into an
> account and lost important letters.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there is a PHP script that a person could use on a
> website that would log into these accounts once every 2 weeks and maybe do
> something like delete any items in the bulk folder and log out again.

Wouldn't it be smarter to download those mails instead?

There are dedicated tools for loggin into pop/imap accounts, I would suggest
fetchmail.


//Aho

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