How to poll email with hosted solutions? PHP or ASP

I have been looking for some time now but i cannot really find a good way to process an emial box using a hosted solution as justhost or asphost . Now my instinct tells me to write a service .. but 开发者_开发知识库i cant install it on either hosts.

Is there any other clever way to over come this problem using any thing from PHP to .NET?

Assuming your webserver is running *nix, you should use crontab to create a cronjob that'll run automatically at your specified times.

If your server is running any form of Windows, you'll have to use Windows Task Scheduler.