1 General

1.1 What is the whole purpose of this service?

To process information that is usually received via email by a self-written php script, to accomplish some certain purpose. There are no limits to your phantasy. Let us know about what you are using it for.

2 Functionality

2.1 Are attachments included as well?

Yes. Attachments in usual emails are always included in ascii-encoded form into the mail body. We leave this mail body untouched and pass it to the specified custom script. You can get hold and save the actual attachment contents using for example mimeDecode.php.

2.2 Are there restrictions on the size of attachments?

Yes, we currently enforce an upper bound of 4400000 Bytes for every forwarded email, including all header information. Thus a 4MB attachment (= 4194304 Bytes) or anything smaller will definitely be forwarded.

2.3 Can I use your service also for sending emails to my asp script?

Yes. Any web server / web language capable of processing an HTTP request containing form data can be a sensible target for this email forwarding.

3 Technicals

3.1 When looking into the mail content, double quotes seem to appear always in escaped form, i.e. as \". How can I receive the mail in original form?

The escaping takes place as part of the encoding of the form variables during sending the request. To obtain the original form, just unescape the respective request variable, for example in PHP:

$orig = str_replace("\\\"", "\"", $_REQUEST['mailtext']);

4 Payment

4.1 Do I receive an invoice upon payment?

We will not automatically issue an invoice upon payment. Please write to info@NOSPAMemail2php.com (please remove NOSPAM) if you require an invoice, and let us know the address at which it should be directed.

4.2 Can I pay into a bank account instead of via internet payment services?

Yes. Please consider however that there might be transaction fees associated to the transfer.