imap_open problems - once in a while

ruttiger

i'm writing an imap web-based email system. it works fine, but every once in a while, i'll be unable to connect to my mailbox for a few minutes.

anybody had similar problems?
i dont think it's entirely PHP's fault - i'm running IMAP on my linux server, professionally set up.

really getting frustrated!!!
any help would be appreciated

blake.

babak

Do you fetch the headers first? Or you go for whole messages only?

ruttiger

i get the bad return ,from imap_open
not using the preopen flag, if it matters

babak

May I see the the imap_open(), whih you use?

ruttiger

like i said, for most of the time, this works great, but there's times during the day that i get the error "Connection Refused" when i call imap_last_error()...i thought the whole server was undergoing maintenance or something, but sending mail to the mailboxes worked fine.

in my call below, $emailUserInfo->imap_host looks like this:
{myserver.com:143}
the mail is kept in the user's ~Mail dir, not by standard...i had to create a .procmailrc file to do that...(didn't want to use it system-wide). before the call, the mailbox name is stored in $mboxName. This code below tries to connect to that mailbox, and if it can't (mailbox might not exist), then it defaults to the inbox, ~Mail/Inbox

thanks in advance!!!

here's the call:

$mbox = imap_open(imap_utf7_encode($emailUserInfo->imap_host . 'Mail/' . $mboxName), $emailUserInfo->imap_alias, $emailUserInfo->imap_password);
if(!$mbox){

default to Inbox on error

$mboxName = 'Inbox';
$mbox = imap_open(imap_utf7_encode($emailUserInfo->imap_host . 'Mail/' . $mboxName), $emailUserInfo->imap_alias, $emailUserInfo->imap_password);
}
if(!$mbox){

TODO: handle this error

print "Unable to open your mailbox right now.<BR>";
print "ERROR: " . imap_last_error() . "<BR>";
exit;
}