Alternative to imap_open

[redletterrocko]

Hi everyone, I'm new here, and just had a question. I've been working on a moblog software that is simple, yet robust. I'm pretty proud of it. I got it working on my home Apache server, but when I get it out into my web-server's environment, imap_open does not work. After further inspection, I realize that Apache apparently was not compiled with --with-imap in it, meaning that I can't use imap_open to open the emails with the moblog content in it. My provider won't compile it in, because they say it's a security risk... Can anyone suggest an option around this, maybe a third party script that does all of the imap_open functions. All I really need it for is to open an email, parse the email, grab the picture attachment. That's it.

 

[RhythmAce]

What scripting language are you using. If you are familiar with php, it has a lot of mail functions built in.

 

[redletterrocko]

I'm using php. I've looked at mail(), but that's only for sending mail. I'm using the script for a moblog software, where I send an MMS message to a predetermined email address, and the script grabs it and adds it to an xml file. I need it to check mail, exactly as imap_open works. If I need to change syntaxes, I guess I can do that too.

 

[RhythmAce]

This is not the php programming forum but I guess it would be ok to tell you that php has a library of imap functions.

 

[sleipnir214]

I think this thread would be best followed-up in the PHP forum: forum434


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