At 10:34 AM -0700 8/10/02, Carl Keil imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: Hey,
I'm trying to write a web page that will go into a certain mailbox on my SIMS server and read the mail. I want people to be able to update an alert message on their homepage just by sending a properly formatted email message to a certain email account. I'm using PHP on a Linux web server. I can retrieve the email out of the mailbox and read the body of the message, but when I use the imap_header() function to try to parse the headers of the message I get nothing. No error, no data. Does anyone know what's going on? Does SIMS do pop3 in some non-standard way? Can someone tell me how PHP can determine the sender and the subject of an email in a SIMS mailbox? I suspect that the 'imap' part of the function name means that it expects to access mail via IMAP. SIMS doesn't do IMAP. In principle, one can get the headers of any message via POP3 with the TOP command, and that does work with SIMS. It may well be that an IMAP-oriented function has no idea that this is possible. You can probably get a more complete answer by hunting down PHP experts to grill on the subject. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] The imap functions work with pop3. They're just named imap. When you open the connection to the mail server you just specify pop3 and the port in the imap_open() function. I'm not getting headers back, so maybe PHP doesn't do this "cleanly" or something. ck ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
