Posted by Benjamin on 07/03/07 01:43

On Jul 2, 6:28 pm, shmic...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I am looping through and reading the body contents of a mail box with
> over 200 emails in it. The script is running very slow and timing out
> after 180 seconds, only getting through about 180 of these emails. Is
> there anyway I can increase the speed of this script? Why is it taking
> so long to loop through all these emails? Code is below:
Probably most of the delay is network latency. How fast is your
connection?
>
> if($mailbox= imap_open( "{###.###.#.###:143/imap}mail_box", $a, $b))
> {
> set_time_limit(180);
> $check = imap_check($mailbox);
> $message_count = imap_num_msg($mailbox);
>
> for ($i=1;$i<=10;$i++)
> {
>
> $header = imap_header($mailbox,$i);
> $body = imap_body($mailbox,$i);
> $message = imap_fetchbody($mailbox,$i,1);
>
> $strpos = strripos($message,"textfield3");
> $prettydate = date("jS F Y", $header->udate);
>
> echo $prettydate." - ".substr($message, $strpos+13, 8)."<br/>";
>
> }
>
> imap_close($mailbox);}
>
> else echo "no connection";

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