How would you implement database updates via email?

Question

I\'m building a public website which has its own domain name with pop/smtp mail services. I\'m considering giving users the option to update their data via email - something sim

Answer 1

use a dotnet popclient to read the incoming emails, parse them for whatever you are expecting and insert the data into the database.

see codeproject website for simple popclient implementation you would have to decided on the email content yourself, eg data only, payload of sql statements, etc