Topic awaiting preservation: Email to confirm (Page 1 of 1)

Hello! this could souns stupid, but hey, I'm a newbbie! that's what we do.

I have this sistem where the people post messages, but I need the people to confirm!
I send an email to the user, then if the user replies to that mail, yes, add his message to the database (post it).
How can I make something like that?
I have no Idea on how to work with received emails.....

Thanks in advance guys

Wakkos
follow the white rabbit

well, wakkos, you'll need to find a way to access a pop3 account (ie. an email account) via php (you should be able to find one on the web). Then you'll need to have a php page regulary called, that looks into that account, and does whatever it has to do according to the mails in it.
(The regularly call part is the hard one, if you don't have cron jobs on your webaccount).

Alternative:
The email transmites a link with a random number. The server stores that random number, and when a certain php page is called with the same number as a parameter, you do what ever it is that you want to confirm. This at least confirms that the person got the email (although it may not confirm that it was really 'his' email address. just that he can somehow read it.)
You may even have a link in the email ala 'click here to post your post'.

so long,

Tyberius Prime

click here to post...
Sounds good.

lemme try that.

Wakkos
follow the white rabbit