PHP email script

[lunaTredecim]

So I'm redoing a website for an organization, and one of the things I want to add is a pseudo-blog function. If an email is sent from a specific email address, I want the contents of the email address to be written into the website. For example, [e-mail] sends an email to [e-mail] saying "Our new product is out!" A php script runs so that the script checks the [e-mail] inbox; since there is an unread message from [e-mail], the php script updates html code on a web server.

My question is as follows: is it feasible?

[WoogieNoogie]

No. Not at all.

[Deja-Vu]

At 5/5/09 12:58 AM, WoogieNoogie wrote: No. Not at all.

Are you serious? Of course it's possible, I've done it multiple times in the past.

You have 2 ways you can go about doing this:

1) You can use PHP to connect to the inbox and check the messages, use the functions here as a starting point, there are quite a few examples to get you started: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.ph p

2) You can pipe all incoming mail for a specific email address to a PHP application. I've done this before for unsubscribing from a newsletter. You can get some instructions here: http://wiki.jumba.com.au/wiki/Pipe_an_em ail_to_a_script

[yhar]

There's quite a few prebuilt services that does this already, you could use one of them if you're not fussed about it being bespoke: wordpress has the option, there's also a hosted solution somewhere, but I forgot the name :(