An idea... would it work?

[webchef]

There is this guy in my office. He wants to build a contact database. Simple enough. but the purpose of the database is to keep track and to allow viewing of every email and corrospondence according to each contact entry.

So i was thinking. Can it be done in php?

I know i can build a contact database easily. But can i have the system check for incoming and outgoing mail. Copy them to the database, organize them according to a contact person. and then allow this guy to view it all.. easily.. and reliabily.

I think its possible.. but how do i go about starting to do this?

I know it involves having to find the outlook and outlook express email files. delimitting them, breaking them up, ect...

perhaps it has already been done?

thanks for any input.
Mike

[Jay]

It definately has been done already because many ISP's use a similar system to track their emails (and this is how it's assigned tracking numbers etc). I don't know if something exists for windows and OE, I'd presume it exists for Linux and Sendmail!