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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