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Novazero
Novazero

Reputation: 553

Automatic Checking of Incoming Emails

Is their a way to either code server side or client side to check new incoming replies to emails and register them in some way? I read upon using something called Reverse Ajax is this possibly the solution I should look into to code what I want.

Also another question is how do you keep track of email conversations? I took at a look at the hidden headers for emails sent and received and it seems that they carry a unique message id which could possibly be used to solve the problem I have.

Thanks :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 200

Answers (2)

amolv
amolv

Reputation: 1008

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2-PHP-Access-to-e-mail-mailboxes-using-the-POP3-protocol.html

Here solution for poping mail, keeping track of new ones, each message has unique id we can use that to track new one.

Upvotes: 0

Oswald
Oswald

Reputation: 31685

Split that into two tasks:

  1. Checking for e-mails on the server
  2. Communication between client and server

For 1: messages have a Message-ID header and optionally a References and an In-Reply-To header that allow you to put together conversations. Note that you also have to keep track of sent messages for that to work (because a reply that you receive has the Message-ID of a message that you sent in the In-Reply-To header).

For 2: the umbrella term seems to be Comet

Upvotes: 1

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