I have a strange requirement.
I need to read the outlook emails from a local pc using php .
I will get user credentials.
so is there any way to do this ?
it need to work well in all major browsers.
Thanks.
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I have a strange requirement.
I need to read the outlook emails from a local pc using php .
I will get user credentials.
so is there any way to do this ?
it need to work well in all major browsers.
Thanks.
Not sure why you would want to try to get this from a LOCAL mail file on a ‘single’ pc, I would rather attack this from a
POP3/IMAProute, it would THEN be a PHP based mail client, or whatever you need it for (fetching mail, filtering, checking, triggering an event, etc;).But what you describe is just not feasible for anything, I can’t see a client paying to have simple client mail accessed via PHP.
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