Read Email from Gmail inbox as it arrives

Question

I've a drupal 7 site, and requires a functionality by which I can read emails from gmail inbox whenever they arrives. Currently I'm achieving it with php imap by running it on cron.

But I want something, which can read email from inbox as soon as it arrives.

Please suggest, thanks

Answer 1

This would be a bit of a round-the-houses approach but create an account with mailgun.com. Within Mailgun you can then direct incoming emails to a URL you specify. Mailgun parses the email and sends it to you in a structured format.

You could then set up your Gmail account to send a copy of all incoming emails to your Mailgun account.