Building A PHP-Based Mail Client

It's almost hard to believe that, up until a few years ago, putting pen to paper was still the most common method of corresponding with long-lost relatives or distant business partners. Today, email is all-pervasive - it has a user base ranging from doting grandmothers to over-enthusiastic dot-commers - and is, by far, the fastest, most efficient way to communicate. Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology was indistinguishable from magic; with millions of messages criss-crossing the globe at any given time, email has some pretty potent magic of its own.