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PHP Confirmation Emails

Tinsley — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:56:17 +0000

If you are implementing your own user management system you may want to ensure that emails associated with users' accounts are valid. The most straightforward way of doing this is to send an email to this account and verify that the user received it. Obviously we don't want to do this manually so the solution is to write a script that automates the process. High Level Concept What we will need to do is:

Generate a confirmation code for our users are registration time
Store that code and track which users are not yet confirmed
Send an email

Do Not Reply

Tinsley — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:06:16 +0000

Anyone who has ever had an email account is probably very familiar with the "Do not reply" email. They can take the form of notifications from your bank, reminders to pay a bill, a newsletter, or just plain spam. Generally the read a little something like: Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. Usually this is followed by some instructions to follow if you have a question or concern. I imagine at some point in the history of automated emailers someone decided that they did not Read More Related posts:

Accessing Email through IMAP using PHP

Tinsley — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:24:41 +0000

Previously I wrote about Intercepting Email with PHP and so far, that has been the most popular post on this blog. That being the case, I decided to write about how you can use PHP's IMAP functions to access email. Read More Related posts:

Intercepting Email with PHP

Tinsley — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:21:18 +0000

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked, or I see asked on forums is "how do I send out an email using PHP?" The answer to that is fairly simple and well documented. It more or less involves the use of a single function mail().

Something a bit more complicated and, I think, more interesting is how you can intercept an incoming email.