I’m hoping for an event based way to know when I get an email. Right now I’m using gmail but the email host isn’t critical. Do I really have to poll it?
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I’m hoping for an event based way to know when I get an email. Right now I’m using gmail but the email host isn’t critical. Do I really have to poll it?
You could forward the mail to a *nix host that uses .forward files, then pipe the mail to a script that handles raising the event in your program (by pinging a URL, etc.)
Here’s an example in a CPanel/PHP environment: http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_pipe_an_email_to_a_PHP_script.html