php email receiver

[Dave Kelly]

My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
into the kernel.

There is a very good phpmailer that is well documentated. Is there an
email receiver writen in PHP out there somewhere I can go get, read,
learn about, use? I would like something I can put in a script, reach
out to my IPS, fetch the email, put it in '/var/www/spool/$DIR', then
process it.

Google turned up 1 hit and I don't want to join a 'ev1 server' to read it.

[noone]

Dave Kelly wrote:

My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
into the kernel. There is a very good phpmailer that is well documentated. Is there an
email receiver writen in PHP out there somewhere I can go get, read,
learn about, use? I would like something I can put in a script, reach
out to my IPS, fetch the email, put it in '/var/www/spool/$DIR', then
process it. Google turned up 1 hit and I don't want to join a 'ev1 server' to read it.

Those are not compiled into the kernel. What Linux do you have, and how
did you install it. All of the installs I have seen install some email
client such as Mozilla Email client (POP3/IMAP) and ALL unix environments
have 'mail' (from the command line type: man mail)

If you have a web server running - you can always search for PHP POP3 MAIL
and come up with something like:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/emailclients.shtml

[Dave Kelly]

noone wrote:

Dave Kelly wrote: (from the command line type: man mail) This is what I did at 8 this am when I got out of bed. I typed 'apropos
mail' and read everything to do with mail. At 12:30 I posted this my
message and went to lunch.

My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
into the kernel.

Those are not compiled into the kernel. What Linux do you have, and how
did you install it. All of the installs I have seen install some email
client such as Mozilla Email client (POP3/IMAP) and ALL unix
environments have 'mail'
I did not say that right, let me try again.
Last fall I was working on a script to generate a report and mail it to
several people around the world. I tried to use 'mail' but kept getting
errors. I finally found way down in '/var/spool/Mail/Mail' a statement
saying that accessing remote hosts had not been compiled into the kernel.
If you have a web server running - you can always search for PHP POP3
MAIL and come up with something like:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/emailclients.shtml

If I had found these on my own, I would have rejected them because to me
there is a difference between a web mail client and an e-mail client.
Am I correct in my thinking on that?

Perhaps if I explained what I am trying to accomplish you would better
understand my needs.

I am using paypal for customers to pay for goods purchase in my eStore.
Paypal sends me an email -Notification of payment- for every purchase.
I have code that will extract the informatin from these messages to
write the invoice and print mailing labels. I just need to manage the
messages as they come off of my ISP. 'procmail' will do that.

I just want something that doesn't do anything to the screen, goes to
my ISP, issues a user and passwd and gathers up the message that are in
a special email account. I don't need address book, spam filter, or any
other bling bling.

And finally,
Thanks for your reply.
Dave

[noone]

Dave Kelly wrote:

noone wrote:

Dave Kelly wrote:

> (from the command line type: man mail)

This is what I did at 8 this am when I got out of bed. I typed 'apropos
mail' and read everything to do with mail. At 12:30 I posted this my
message and went to lunch.

>> My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
>> into the kernel.

Those are not compiled into the kernel. What Linux do you have, and
how did you install it. All of the installs I have seen install some
email client such as Mozilla Email client (POP3/IMAP) and ALL unix
environments have 'mail'

I did not say that right, let me try again.
Last fall I was working on a script to generate a report and mail it to
several people around the world. I tried to use 'mail' but kept getting
errors. I finally found way down in '/var/spool/Mail/Mail' a statement
saying that accessing remote hosts had not been compiled into the kernel.

If you have a web server running - you can always search for PHP POP3
MAIL and come up with something like:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/emailclients.shtml

If I had found these on my own, I would have rejected them because to me
there is a difference between a web mail client and an e-mail client.
Am I correct in my thinking on that?

Perhaps if I explained what I am trying to accomplish you would better
understand my needs.

I am using paypal for customers to pay for goods purchase in my eStore.
Paypal sends me an email -Notification of payment- for every purchase.
I have code that will extract the informatin from these messages to
write the invoice and print mailing labels. I just need to manage the
messages as they come off of my ISP. 'procmail' will do that.

I just want something that doesn't do anything to the screen, goes to
my ISP, issues a user and passwd and gathers up the message that are in
a special email account. I don't need address book, spam filter, or any
other bling bling.

And finally,
Thanks for your reply.
Dave

makes sense now :) I have not had to write one but...

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2.html

simple google search for php pop3 should get you what you want.
log into pop3 account
download messages
save the messages to some message store (mysql or flat files)
process the files.

shouldn't be too difficult with the above phpclasses.

and you're welcome.