Stut wrote:
>  Jochem Maas wrote:
> > Angelo Zanetti wrote:
> >  
> >> 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.
>  
>  Just to add something to consider... which way you do it can depend on
>  what your script will be doing and how many emails you expect to
>  receive. If the script is intensive and/or you are expecting a lot of
>  emails you're better off cron'ing a script to deal with them otherwise
>  your server could end up bogged down by those processes. I can't speak
>  for other MTAs but I do know that with Postfix you can apply a limit to
>  the number of simultaneous processes that are started if you implement
>  it in the transport map.

good point!

>  
>  -Stut
>  

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