[Phpwm] Email to Database application

[keith Pope]

2009/10/12 Gavin Kimpson <gkimpson at gmail.com>:
> Hi guys,
> Sorry in advance, this is directly a PHP question, but I am sure someone
> will be able to help - I've got a client that wishes to have a system that
> sends out an email to all their customers, the customer replies to this
> email (in Outlook, Thunderbird etc..) and using an external application
> stores the contents from the email within an MySQL Database. I have seen
> some applications like 'Email2DB' - while this looks decent it seems
> 'bloated' in my view and if you require more advanced scripts (which I'll
> need) you have to use the built-in VB scripting engine (and I haven't
> touched anything like that since QBasic all them years at Uni!!)
> Has anyone else come across this issue, if so do you know of a good product
> (paid or open source) that does this pretty well?
> Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

You can simply setup a pop box that the returns would be sent to, then
with php read the mailbox and parse the messages.

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.mail.read.html

Other option would be to pipe the mails into a php script at the mail
server, this is more complicated, pop is much easier....

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