Right now I use multiple email addresses to manage my mail. For instance, I use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for personal email from real people and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for mailing lists. This makes it easy to sort email into separate folders, but I realize it isn't necessary. I could sort by some other criteria just fine.
But the main reason I use multiple email addresses is that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is actually an alias that forwards to both my email account "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" AND my cellphone "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I like being notified when I receive an email from a real person, while I wouldn't want to be notified when I receive list messages.
Now, I would like to migrate to using only one email address, but still have the same functionality I have now. I think I would have to have some sort of server-side app to check my email account for relevant messages and notify me.
MY QUESTION
Does anyone know of a simple script I could run as a cron job to POP my email account, check for new messages, and send me a text message containing the subject of each message that matches my preset criteria?
I feel comfortable using PHP for everything except the POPping -- I believe the PHP POP functions are not compiled into the default PHP distribution, or at least not into my hosting company's version. I started to use the PHP modules from SquirrelMail instead, but before going any further I thought I'd check with you all for a better solution.
Thanks, Richard
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