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Posted by bill on 01/26/07 12:09
Norman Peelman wrote:
> bill wrote:
>> I know that the IMAP library can be used to pop mail as well, but the
>> php.net documentation is not very clear (by this I mean simple enough
>> for me to understand).
>>
>> Does anyone have a link or a resource that give simple examples ?
>>
>> I need to retrieve some plain text or the plain text part of a
>> multipart email only.
>>
>> bill
>
> Bill,
>
> I don't know of any tutorials but in my messing around with the IMAP
> functions it seemed pretty easy. The functions are pretty self
> explanatory as found on www.php.net so really try to remember the folowing:
>
> 1) connect to the mail server
> 2) obtain the number of messages (if needed)
> 3) or optionally search for a specific message
> 4) fetch the info you want
> 5) close the connection
>
> A simple example would be:
>
> $mailbox =
> imap_open("{your.mailserver.com:110/pop3}INBOX","username","password");
> $mailbox_status = imap_check($mailbox);
> echo "<br>Mailbox status for {$mailbox_status->Mailbox}:<br>";
> echo "System date: {$mailbox_status->Date}<br>";
> echo "System driver: {$mailbox_status->Driver}<br>";
> echo "Message count: {$mailbox_status->Nmsgs}<br>";
> etc.
> imap_close($mailbox);
> ---
>
>
> you may be better off looking through www.phpclasses.org and finding a
> pre-made class that will do all this for you.
>
> Norm
> ---
THanks Norm
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