Heh, I think he meant to *receive* email with his application, not send it. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">we want to automate the process of receiving updates from users via email"</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">David<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Meryll Larkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alwanza@yahoo.com">alwanza@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Maybe I'm assuming too much again.... If the Web app and Database are hosted by the same ISP, the ISP usually provides information about how the Database can be accessed inside a script (at least provides you with your account details - username password, the name/address of database and which modules are available to reach it).<br>
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If the Web app and Database are not hosted with the same ISP, I could understand you might need to parse the email if the ports you need to communicate directly with the database aren't open between Web app server and DB server.<br>
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Meryll<br>
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