How to build a mailbot in PHP. The fascination with having software automate your mundane tasks never ceases. One such tedious activity lies in email parsing. Email accounts can be a useful tool for enabling people to enact a request or issue a command that may not require the intervention of humans. One such example is the, now all to common, “unsubscribe” request to harmless lists and nefarious spammers. The automated program that handles these requests is called a mailbot. Though it was adopted early, and has been retired in many cases in favor of web-interfaces, mailbots still represent a good technique for performing a number of useful tasks. Nearly anything can be done with enough creativity, good code, and patience. — Michael Galloway
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