| Posted by bill on 03/23/07 17:04 
Manuel Lemos wrote:> Hello,
 >
 > on 03/22/2007 08:18 AM bill said the following:
 >> I am in preliminary design of a contact management program.  The user
 >> would like to use his current mail server (POP3 - remote).
 >>
 >> I have done some reading on the IMAP functions but am unclear if the
 >> following is possible:
 >>
 >> Using the IMAP functions can I write a PHP script to:
 >>    scan the subject lines of all mail in the mailbox ?
 >>    pop just certain messages from the inbox ?
 >>    delete those messages from the inbox ?
 >>
 >> all without disturbing the other messages in his inbox that are
 >> downloaded to his usual email client (Thunderbird).
 >>
 >> If anyone can suggest a better way to do this, I am all ears.
 >
 > You may want to take a look at this POP3 class. You can use the class
 > RetrieveMessage function to retrieve just the message headers and get
 > only the first body lines you need.
 >
 > http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class
 >
 > You can also this MIME message parser class that can decode message and
 > extract headers that use non-ASCII characters. I think you need that to
 > filter message by subject or sender, as messages with non-ASCII
 > characters are encoded with q-encoding like this:
 >
 > =?iso-8859-1?Q?
 >
 > http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser
 >
 
 Thank you
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