I've done it using cpanel (quite easy actually), and from some googling 
it seems possible with plesk too. Just search for "<your control panel 
name> pipe email to script".

With #1, you can use php imap extension, which lets you access both pop 
and imap mailboxes.

Adam

leo wrote:
> Thanks, I'd assumed #1 was the only option, but #2 sounds interesting.
> Do you have any pointers on how to set up the email account? I don't
> know whether it'll be possible using shared hosting.
>
> Regarding #1, do you have any pointers for the script? I have no idea
> how to programatically access an email account.
>
> L
>
> On Feb 19, 10:17 am, Adam Royle<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> Depends on your server setup. Two solutions:
>>
>> 1. Write a script that is called periodically through cron that checks
>> an email mailbox for new messages.
>> 2. Setup your email account to pipe to a script instead of to a mailbox.
>>
>> I have used #2 and it works well because the script only runs when it
>> needs to.
>>
>> Either way, once you get the email content you'll need to parse it
>> somehow to find the relevant content. I've used the mailparse php
>> extension and it works pretty well.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
>> leo wrote:
>>      
>>> I'm looking at updating a blog by email - a la blogger&    wordpress.
>>>        
>>> Anybody have any ideas about how to go about this?
>>>        
>>> Last time I thought about it I found some protocols and stuff through
>>> google, but google seems these days do be a bit chaffy and I can't
>>> remember what the protocol was.
>>>        
>>> Anyway, it seems to me that protocol isn't important, it's how to get
>>> at the email from the blog script.
>>>        
>>> Anyone?
>>>        
> >
>
>    

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