What are the limitations of using PHP to receive emails compared to sending them?

When using PHP to receive emails, one limitation is that PHP's built-in mail function does not have the capability to directly receive emails. To overcome this limitation, you can use a third-party library or service like PHP IMAP to access and process incoming emails from a mail server. 

// Example code using PHP IMAP to receive emails
$mailbox = '{imap.example.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX';
$username = 'email@example.com';
$password = 'password';

$inbox = imap_open($mailbox, $username, $password) or die('Cannot connect to mailbox: ' . imap_last_error());

$emails = imap_search($inbox, 'ALL');

if ($emails) {
    foreach ($emails as $email_number) {
        $email_data = imap_fetchbody($inbox, $email_number, 1);
        // Process the email data as needed
    }
}

imap_close($inbox);

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