I believe someone on this board asked a question on this topic sometime ago. I did not know much about the topic myself and several google searches I made then did not help until I bumped into this article from DEVSHED.

It is very old but very informative and it got me going on the subject and I have succesfully practiced and succeeded with all the steps involved.

I decided to put up the link here in case there is still someone out there that needs it.

Link 1  (not too clear but will give you the idea of what the whole thing is all about)

Link 2 (part 1 of the article)

Link 3 (part 2 )

Link 4 (part 3)

Enjoy.

Thanks. This is a wonderful tutorial. That is why I tell people to feel free to re-invent the wheel as that is the only yo know how the wheel is built and more importantly how it can be improved upon.

Great tutorial indeed.

IMAP connection on that tutorial wasnt working for me until I changed the 'imap_open' line to something like this:

$inbox = @imap_open ("{mail.mydomain.com/notls}INBOX", "my_email_username", "$my_email_password";

I got help from PHP manual.

The ones they used on the tutorial refused to connect probably because its an older version of PHP or due to settings on my webhost.

Good source.

onye_ngbu:

I believe someone on this board asked a question on this topic sometime ago. I did not know much about the topic myself and several google searches I made then did not help until I bumped into this article from DEVSHED.

It is very old but very informative and it got me going on the subject and I have succesfully practiced and succeeded with all the steps involved.

I decided to put up the link here in case there is still someone out there that needs it.

Link 1 (not too clear but will give you the idea of what the whole thing is all about)

Link 2 (part 1 of the article)

Link 3 (part 2 )

Link 4 (part 3)

Enjoy.

numerous GBAZA 4 you

Which is better, IMAP or SMTP

afam4eva:

Which is better, IMAP or SMTP

Dont get confused with the 2 protocols.
IMAP allows emails to be accessed remotely, while SMTP does the relay