
How do I create a program that would read my email messages using PHP?
The email provider is hotmail.
Open port 110 to the Hotmail server. Read the email. Read RFC 1939 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html ) for the details of how to do it (the first paragraph of part 3 is a quick overview). Close the port.
You can run this on a server or any computer with the PHP interpreter installed, or you can compile PHP into a Windows executable (http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/ )
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