Email Parsing/Email Polling and General Email Questions

PHP
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Can anyone recommend a good class?
I am trying to add email checking functionality to a CRM and parse the contents to a database.

Do emails have unique identifiers?
I want to make sure I only process emails that have not yet been checked and delete the email after processing.

The pseudoworkflow will go like this.

-Check email if new mail

-process email with custom parsing functions e.g. customprocessor()
–parse email, add certain contents to Database

-if contents parsed, mark email as read, check next message.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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I haven’t used it, but Zend Framework has a Mail/Mime component. There is also PEAR’s [URL=http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime/]Mail_Mime. Otherwise you can always use the lower level [URL=http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php]imap/mime extension.

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Thanks!