EmailReader template - give your database an email address

1. Enable imap extension in php.ini. If you are on a shared web hosting check with your hosting company support if this extension is enabled already.

2. Proceed to mail_settings table and modify path to store attachments. This can be either relative or absolute path. Make sure web server user has write permissions on that folder.

3. Proceed to email_servers table and add one or more pop3/imap servers. Interval between email checks is set in minutes.

4. Schedule a cron job to run getmail.php ( getmail for ASPRunner.NET i.e. https://website/project/getmail ) page every five or so minutes. If your website runs on Linux web server and you have access to crontab file you have two options here.

Method 1: Execute the script using php from the crontab

To execute cron.php every 5 minutes do the following:

Method 2: Run the php script using URL from the crontab

The URL to schedule is https://website/project/getmail.php. The following script executes the php script every 5 minutes by calling the URL using WGET. The -q option indicates quite mode. The "-O temp.txt" indicates that the output will be sent to the temporary file.

If you are not sure how to schedule a cron job open a free account with monitoring service like Montastic and add http://website/project/getmail.php URL to be pinged once a day or or once an hour.

While EmailReader template is only available for PHPRunner you can use a hybrid approach. PHP part will be reading emails from POP3/IMAP accounts and ASP.NET project will deal with the emails that are already in the database.

1. In PHPRunner create a new project using EmailReader template. Upload it to your website and configure mail settings. If everything setup properly new emails will be stored in mail_messages table.

2. Create a new project in ASPRunner.NET pointing it to the same database. Add mail_settings table to your project. This is it, you can see your emails in mail_messages table.

3. One more step if you need to display inline email images. Set 'View as' type of Body field to 'Custom' and use the following code there:

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You can proceed to business\EmailReader\source folder in project directory and modify getmail.php file. Here is the line that defines the maximum number of messages to retrieve:

In order to test EmailReader template setup send a test email to one of incoming email addresses, wait for cron job to work (or open getmail.php manually in your browser), then see a new email message appear at the top of list.

For instance:

• Send a test email to [email protected]
• Open https://xlinesoft.com/livedemo/emailreader/getmail.php in your web browser
• Then proceed to https://xlinesoft.com/livedemo/emailreader/mail_messages_list.php and see your email message there

How can I execute some code when a new email arrives?