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#1 (**permalink**) 09-29-2005, 01:30 PM

Hello,

Does anybody know a script which is parsing received e-mails?
I want to make an application which is putting the received emails in a database.
I found a way but it is not the most secure.

Thanks,
Claudiu

#2 (**permalink**) 09-29-2005, 02:56 PM

Can you explain a bit more about what you are trying to do. If you are getting users to submit information for a database perhaps a web form would be easier? just a suggestion

#3 (**permalink**) 09-29-2005, 03:03 PM

Yes.

I want to make an application that will take the mails which arrive in my account and put them into a database to be accesed later. Something like Outloo, but online.

I have made one such a script, but it has a fault. I can't gat chmod working. I need to set chmod to the inbox file to 777 or 666 I'm not sure so I can read the mails and delete them.

#4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2005, 05:23 AM

OK guys, I found out a way.

PHP has some extraordinary functions: imap_xxxxxx. These are used to work with your inbox. Great stuff.