Posted by noone on 03/24/06 06:33

Dave Kelly wrote:
> noone wrote:
>
>> Dave Kelly wrote:
>
>
> > (from the command line type: man mail)
> This is what I did at 8 this am when I got out of bed. I typed 'apropos
> mail' and read everything to do with mail. At 12:30 I posted this my
> message and went to lunch.
>
>
> >> My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
> >> into the kernel.
>
>> Those are not compiled into the kernel. What Linux do you have, and
>> how did you install it. All of the installs I have seen install some
>> email client such as Mozilla Email client (POP3/IMAP) and ALL unix
>> environments have 'mail'
>
>
> I did not say that right, let me try again.
> Last fall I was working on a script to generate a report and mail it to
> several people around the world. I tried to use 'mail' but kept getting
> errors. I finally found way down in '/var/spool/Mail/Mail' a statement
> saying that accessing remote hosts had not been compiled into the kernel.
>
>>
>> If you have a web server running - you can always search for PHP POP3
>> MAIL and come up with something like:
>> http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/emailclients.shtml
>
>
> If I had found these on my own, I would have rejected them because to me
> there is a difference between a web mail client and an e-mail client.
> Am I correct in my thinking on that?
>
> Perhaps if I explained what I am trying to accomplish you would better
> understand my needs.
>
> I am using paypal for customers to pay for goods purchase in my eStore.
> Paypal sends me an email -Notification of payment- for every purchase.
> I have code that will extract the informatin from these messages to
> write the invoice and print mailing labels. I just need to manage the
> messages as they come off of my ISP. 'procmail' will do that.
>
> I just want something that doesn't do anything to the screen, goes to
> my ISP, issues a user and passwd and gathers up the message that are in
> a special email account. I don't need address book, spam filter, or any
> other bling bling.
>
> And finally,
> Thanks for your reply.
> Dave
>

makes sense now :) I have not had to write one but...

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2.html

simple google search for php pop3 should get you what you want.
log into pop3 account
download messages
save the messages to some message store (mysql or flat files)
process the files.

shouldn't be too difficult with the above phpclasses.

and you're welcome.

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