Posted by Shawn Wilson on 11/23/05 04:05

I am trying to make a webmail system and am just starting my work with POP3
via PHP. I seem to be figuring out the basic steps, but I don't know if
what I want to do is possible.

I want to move an entire message (all of them in the box really) to my
system. I want to at least copy all of the messages from a given POP3
mailbox to my server and maybe delete them (more than likely always delete
them). Basically, just like your local mail program does.

Right now, it seems that in order to do that, I have to request parts of
each message (header, body, any attachments, etc...) separately and then
write all that to a local file. Is there not a way to request the entire
message file in a binary stream or something to simply dump that to a local
file for me to parse later?

Please someone tell me that there is an easier way than grabbing individual
message parts and recreating the file myself locally?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Shawn Wilson

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