Wow, everyone's beat you up a bit. I'm not about to do your homework for
you, but here's the way you should be thinking:
1) What POP3 server will you be using?
2) Can you be sure that the POP3 server will run on the same box as the
web server?
3) How does that server store user information? in files, what kind of
format? in a mySQL database? in an LDAP directory?
4) What features of PHP can you use to write to those files, or that
database, or that directory?
AFAIK, the POP3 protocol has no facility for creating accounts, so
account creation will not happen over POP3. You'll need to write some
PHP to manage user accounts in whatever datastore the POP3 server uses.
A note about (2) above -- if the web app is required to deal with a
remote POP3 server, you're going to have to figure out how to manipulate
the user accounts on that remote server. If your POP3 server is using a
file for user accounts, you'll need to figure out what mechanism you'll
use to (securely!) modify that file remotely. If it's mySQL or LDAP,
you'll have an easier time?
HTH
-Tim
Shadab Wadiwala wrote:
Hello friends,
I m working on a minor project using PHP/MySQL in my college.
I have been assigned a tough task to do.
The project is a web-based email service on the lines of Yahoo Mail
and Gmail.
Actually I need to create an online POP3 account and an SMTP account
of an end-user in the email server using PHP.
I don't have any experience in online POP3 and SMTP accounts creation
and not aware with the PHP codes to perform the specific task.
So if u know any thing regarding the above mentioned task so pls help me.
Thank you
*/_Shadab .I. Wadiwala_/*
*_My homepage:--_ http://shadabworld.110mb.com*
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