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php webmail without email server on computer

can u have a webmail client that can check your email address...such as your isp email address...with out having an email server configured on your machine, as i dont have a domain name or dns...

thnx in advance...
Justin

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For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have access to the sendmail binary on your system during compile time. If you use another mail program, such as qmail or postfix, be sure to use the appropriate sendmail wrappers that come with them. PHP will first look for sendmail in your PATH, and then in the following: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib. It's highly recommended to have sendmail available from your PATH. Also, the user that compiled PHP must have permission to access the sendmail binary

http://us4.php.net/mail

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- Dustin

Yes you can, and it can be done in more ways than one.

First, if you wanted to do this with php's functions then you could check out thier IMAP Functions

Second, if you wanted even greater control over the program, you could Study the POP3 Protocol and learn to use PHP's sockets/streams to send and retrieve commands directly to/from the POP3 Server (port 110). Of course if you want to have your script access non-pop3 servers then the IMAP functions would be better unless you feel like re-inventing the wheel.. which can be interesting sometimes =P

There are probably even more solutions out there, but these are two to help answer your question

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