eZ Systems has released a new PEAR package (currently in alpha) to parse email messages. This tutorial by Derick Rethans shows how to use it.
I’m really interested in this as I want to implement email integration for Magna CRM (although there are a lot of features ahead of this).
Via PHPDeveloper.org
Yeah I saw this to. I think it said it only supports POP though. I’m not sure why this would be if they’re using the IMAP extension so I assume they aren’t. If not I’d be a little concerned about performance under heavy mail load, though for smaller uses I’m sure it’s fine. Well, except that it doesn’t support IMAP.
Comment by Ian — April 5, 2006 @ 05:28
I played a bit with the code. From what I saw it doesn’t use the IMAP extension to retrieve messages. They do the pop3 thing on their own, so imap is not supported.
Do you think imap is really necessary? E.g. FogBugz only supports pop3 and I’ve never seen a request for imap come in their support forums.
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — April 5, 2006 @ 10:43
Perhaps not. I have customers using it, but many mail systems accept either type of request so customer could probably switch to pop3 if needed.
Does it handle secure connections? That would be something you’d definitely want.
Comment by Ian Landsman — April 5, 2006 @ 15:46
Good point about secure pop. I’ll check…
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — April 5, 2006 @ 15:57
No SSL is not supported. It’s on the todo list though.
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — April 5, 2006 @ 15:59