NOTE: i’m open to other solutions such as php, but i’m most comfortable authoring asp.
i’m trying to add a feature to my site that will allow users to view inbox contents of a pop3 email inbox as they please.
i’m also open to other ways to go about doing this.
essentially we have a group of users who interact over email with each other and also tack on a site email address (
so what i’ve envisioned is to have some page accessible that will automatically log into this email account and display the inbox contents. the user would not have to know the username, password, etc- they’d just be able to browse the email.
i guess it’s kind of like a message board but not really. the key is that the interaction is done over email and i just want to be able to have this available real-time online.
i haven’t been able to find anything in asp that will allow this but have read about some 3rd party components (jmail i believe is one?) that can be used, but that requires support from the hosting company, which is not ideal.
is there a better way to go about doing this? i’d also thought of having some script that would somehow monitor the email address and suck incoming mails into some db that would then be accessible easily by asp. but i wouldn’t have a clue how to author that script also.
HELP!
please, feel free to offer suggestions or ask more questions for clarification. thanks in advance!