davej Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 (edited) I've never messed with email. Is it tricky to deal with? I'm on a shared host. I'm surprised that so far it seems absurdly simple. The Php mail() command seems to send it and the received mail just magically appears in each owners new mail folder. I need to figure out how to launch a cron job to process the forum input and output, but I thought this was going to be much more difficult than it is looking right now. Edited October 21, 2013 by davej Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birbal Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 you wan to work with stored email in your account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davej Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 I want to create a forum that allows optional participation via email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 If you want to have PHP check for email then you need to set up an email account for it to check. PHP has an IMAP extension that I use to connect to an email account and check the contents. Check the documentation for the IMAP extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davej Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 Looks like it might even easier than that. I created a forum@mysite.com account on cpanel and the received messages just appear in a received mail folder -- so I guess I'll need a cron job to run a Php script that would check to see if the folder has files in it, and if so then process those files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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