Re: Uploading by email

Hello,

On 08/25/2003 05:41 PM, Wouter Van Vliet wrote:
> I know it's slightly not totally about PHP.. but since I wanna do it with
> PHP, i'll post it here. I was wondering if anybody can help me to accomplish
> the following:
>
> - Somebody sends an email to, for example, fotoupload@esctoday.com. This
> email has some attachments, being photo's to be added to some system.
> - Sendmail recievers the email, and sends it to some PHP script
> - This script parses the input it gets, ...
>
> Now, what would I need to do for all this to happen?

The generic portable solution is to make your messages be deliverd to a
POP3 mailbox and the connect to the POP3 server to retrieve and process
the message.

I do that very often and use this POP3 client class to retrieve and
delete processed messages:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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