thanks for that message. i have successfully connected to the IMAP and retrieved emails am getting the following errors with regards to MIME emails:
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3337326146_8468190 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Text Body --B_3337326146_8468190 Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Text= Body --B_3337326146_8468190-- any thoughts? how can i test for MIME? and process accordingly? On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Chris Hope <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are a couple of ways to do it. On a *nix box you can have the > incoming messages aliased to a process (i.e. your PHP script) which > will run as soon as the message is received. This is fairly straight > forward but if you don't have your script set up correctly you may > lose your incoming messages, and it can also be difficult to test and > debug. If you search this group I'm fairly certain doing this has been > covered before. > > The other way is batch it via cron (as you've suggested) using a mail > library. The PHP IMAP functions can be used for this, although I'm > sure there are plenty of others which may possible be easier to use. > > Check the PHP manual > http://nz.php.net/imap > and I've also written a number of articles about using IMAP. A couple > that should help are > http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-imap-download-email/ > and > http://www.electrictoolbox.com/extract-attachments-email-php-imap/ > > Regards, > Chris > > 2009/10/2 Brendan Brink <[email protected]>: >> Hi there, >> >> I am wanting to know what is the best way to receive emails at an email >> address and extract information from the email on the fly and process them >> via a PHP script? >> >> basically i am wanting a client to send a message through an email to say >> '[email protected]' and i set up a cronjob to process each email that >> arrives at this address via a php script. >> >> any help or direction would be greatly appreciated... >> >> cheers >> brendan. >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Chris Hope > The Electric Toolbox Ltd > > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.electrictoolbox.com > Phone: +64 9 522 9531 > Mobile: +64 21 866 529 > > > > -- Kind Regards, Brendan Brink SMS Marketing Consultant | Manager Sell2Cell Ltd. 021 0246 1646 | [email protected] | www.sell2cell.co.nz We provide customized, cost-effective SMS & Web Solutions Need a website? Need to integrate text-messaging into your business or website? Contact us today for a free no-obligation quote! VISIT OUR ASSOCIATED WEBSITES: textvouchers.com | textguru.co.nz WARNING This email contains information which is CONFIDENTIAL and may be subject to LEGAL PRIVILEGE. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy the email or attachments. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email, facsimile, or telephone (call us collect). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
