How to get the Reply Emails ? Need a Mail Server?

Question

As i'm knowing just about PHP and don't know at all about Mail Servers, what i want to know here is:

• How can i get the "Replied" emails (from the receivers) for the mails i've send (by using PHP, with a address like [email protected])
• Does it need to setup my own Mail Server?
• Unless using own Mail Server, is there any other easy way?
  
  Honestly i'm not well understanding over IMAP or Email Protocols. Doing setup my own IMAP Server is far worse. Can it be done simply with a Web Hosting which supporting IMAP protocol? Or do i need to setup manually out from the start?
  
  To be brief, i need a simple guide.

Answer 1

You only need a mail server if you don't already have a place where those reply-tos end up. Which adress are you sending them as? Where would you fetch the emails for those adress? You can ask PHP to log into any mail server that you'd fetch your emails from manually as well, so there shouldn't be a problem. But maybe I'm not getting you right.

Answer 2

Simply put the reply address to an email you own. For the example you gave to work, you would need to have the [email protected] account.

Most people use something along the lines of [email protected], ans then create an account for that on their ma8lserver.

If you want to use your own domain, you don't need to run your own mailserver. Gmail, hotmail, and others have services that let you use their mailservers for your fomain, for free.