Reading emails?

[PlecPicker]

I have run into another brick wall here, basically i would like to read emails sent to me from paypal when someone buys something from my site.

This email will contain a block of text with product codes and quantity's.

I would like to read each NEW email, scan and retrieve these codes and quantity's, but leave the message as unread.

This is to keep stock levels automated, and a step towards allowing the site to sell more than we have.

I have googled this and found a few examples of scripts that i cant even understand let alone use.

I'm not asking for a ready to go script, just help getting started on this.

I will continue to google.

Keep picking.

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try this: https://pear.php.net/package/Mail

I have also seen a module somewhere called "SMTP" which was some kind of C bindings (perhaps?). You could literally get a (resource)/connection with authentication and everything and then iterate over emails.

[PlecPicker]

Not much luck with pear.

Also i ideally would like to avoid prewritten code that i dont understand,
Every bit of code on plecpicker.com has been done by me, and i know whats what.

I see this as more than just developing my site, it is a learning curve.

At the minute i'm learning perl. from what i have read about it, perl seem to be the language of choice for achieving this email scanner.

[criterion9]

Wouldn't it be more effective to use the Paypal IPN rather than scan through emails which could be spoofed?

[ssystems]

wouldn't it be more effective to use the paypal ipn rather than scan through emails which could be spoofed?

+1

[PlecPicker]

Would it be easy to spoof an email when I am only looking for 1 type of email from 1 specific sender? Surely I could check ? No?

I will look into paypals own features, I did look into these a while ago before I decided to code my own cart from scratch. A decision I do not regret.

[criterion9]

Would it be easy to spoof an email when I am only looking for 1 type of email from 1 specific sender? Surely I could check ? No?

I will look into paypals own features, I did look into these a while ago before I decided to code my own cart from scratch. A decision I do not regret.

The Paypal IPN notifies your script when a payment is processed. It is VERY easy to spoof that you created the email and to copy the format that was used in the real email. Using email to validate/verify any type of commerce is a BAD idea.

[ssystems]

Would it be easy to spoof an email when I am only looking for 1 type of email from 1 specific sender? Surely I could check ? No?

I will look into paypals own features, I did look into these a while ago before I decided to code my own cart from scratch. A decision I do not regret.

Yes. Just let us know what email you are checking and I'll send you one from that email. That's how easy it is.

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no.. its not easy to spoof email, because EVERYONE uses PGP/GPG (responsibly) these days...

+1 to the IPN