CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpmysql
user1216858
user1216858

Reputation: 53

Receiving emails, processing them and saving them on the database of my web application

I need in some way to accept incoming emails to my web application and save them in the database. My web application is written in PHP language and im using MySQL database.

I have no idea how can i do that... I builded the rest of my web application by myself but this is very complicated for me.

For example i need to know how can i accept incoming emails first... and where? in which email address my web application will accept these emails...???

Then how i will get them from there? How i will process them and how i will store them in my database?

Please help me with an example, some piece of code, anything! Any help is accepted.

Im not an expert so a piece of code will help me a lot.

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1435

Answers (2)

Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison

Reputation: 86774

You basically have two choices:

  1. Run an SMTP program (such as Postfix or Sendmail) on your server to receive the emails, and use procmail to pass them to your code

  2. get an email account on an external host service and retrieve the email using one of the POP3 client packages for PHP, such as pop3class

Option 1 is much harder to do, and you have to learn about administering an email server, which is not a trivial task. Option 2 is relatively easy and is the one I'd recommend.

Upvotes: 3

Sirko
Sirko

Reputation: 74106

Easiest way would be to setup a regular email address with some freemailer and then check this account.

A start for this might be the POP3-class of PHPMailer.

Upvotes: 0

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