wat does it stand for? was my first ques i asked Akhil , my senior who tot me to use fdm today...
fdm stands for Fetch and Deliver Mail .
it is a software application , if u give the login details of ur email acc , like email provider address, its port address along with user name and passwd , fdm fetches the inbox and recieves the email!(ofcourse if internet is on :P )
we are using a shell script to call the fdm to acess the gmail acc .
co incidentally, the mail which we have to read is in form of a fixed format of certain no. fields
so we write the contents of the mail into a text file and run a shell script to scrap the required fields and put it into varialbles and send them to a php page! so indirectly we have an access to the remote database frm jus an email !! wit fdm's help
this sendin of the parameters into the php page of directly to the database is taken care of by anothe r applicaton called curl .. have limited info regarding curl, will search and get familiar with how to use it.
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