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A new feature I wish to add to our local network is the ability to retrieve email from free email services such as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail using PHP. There are services we can pay for but I would rather hack it up myself!
I find that Google only has an API but the rest do not. What are the problems associated then with me just retrieving email using CURL?
I have even implemented the GMail part using CURL and PHP.
It almost certainly violates their terms of service to screen-scrape their websites for that purpose. If they redesign your site, the scripts you’re using to parse out the e-mail contents etc. will probably break catastrophically, as well.
Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail all support POP3, a standard protocol for retrieving e-mails. Why not use that instead?