Angelo Zanetti wrote:
>  Dear All.
>  
>  Do u know if its possible with PHP to receive a mail or connect to a
>  mail box and do something with an incomming email ? I see there is that
>  imap_open() but also there are sockets.

indeed - basically use whatever you want! - I would suggest have a search online,
there are quite a lot of mailbox related classes/libs/etc as well as fully featured
php webmail packages that you might be able to scrounge some useful code out of.

an alternative could be to configure your mail server to pipe the incoming
email directly to your script (i.e. don't deliver it to a mailbox at all) -
this has the advantage that your script doesn't have to run as a daemon (or via cron)
in order to poll the given mailbox - it simply recieves the email on stdin
whenever an email arrives.

>  
>  Basically I need to connect to a mailbox and then when a mail is
>  received it must take that mail and do something with the attachment
>  which I know how to do and is not important to this question.
>  
>  Please maybe advise as to what the best way is and also if you have
>  experienced difficulties with a certain way.
>  
>  Thanks in advance.
>  

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