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CaspianXI

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Registered: 2007-05-29

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PHP scripts accessing pop3 on shared hosting

I'm trying to create a PHP script (or a script in any language will do what I wan...) which needs to be able to read and parse sent to a specific email account. Unfortunately, it seems that scripts aren't able to log into pop3 servers when run on an account without a dedicated IP (such as is the case with shared hosting).

Is there any way to get around this problem? (Am I just doing something wrong?)

Thanks .

fukawi2

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: PHP scripts accessing pop3 on shared hosting

Does it have to be self-contained? Could you use fetchmail to get the mail (works fine with my shared host) and then just parse the mbox file in /var/spool/mail (depending what MTA you have setup)?

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frip

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Registered: 2008-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: PHP scripts accessing pop3 on shared hosting

Could you post some error messages?

I'm using a script to fetch all messages from my different mail accounts and then append them to my master mail account. I had no problems connecting to pop3 accounts.

Btw, what do you exactly want to do? (Sorry, I'm no native English speaker and didn't quite understand the purpose of your script)