reading messages on POP3 mailbox

[dupa]

I need to load messages from a POP3 mailbox and store them into a database.
I know that exists the --with-imap compiling option.. but.. is there any other solution? Is this the easiest?
And.. can you suggest me some nice tutorial over internet to use the "imap_" functions..

Thank you very much!

[dannys]

Read the POP3 RFC and write some PHP code open a POP3 box or download one of the many pre-written classes which do just that.

http://www.google.com/search?q=PHP+POP3+Class

[mapostel]

Hi dupa,

I've used the imap functions. I followed examples in the PHP manual. E.g. I've used this code to detect a certain message based on From: and Subject:

$mbox = imap_open ("{pop3.your.provider.com:110/pop3}INBOX", "username", "password");
$total = imap_num_msg($mbox);   # get the number of messages sitting in the mailbox

for ($x=$total; $x>0; $x--) {
	$headers = imap_header ($mbox, $x);
        $from = htmlspecialchars($headers->fromaddress);
        $subject=htmlspecialchars($headers->subject);
        echo "Subject: $subject<br>From: $from<br>";   #just for debugging
        if (!(strpos($from, "[e-mail]")===FALSE)) {       

        	if (!(strpos($subject, "subject to be recognized")===FALSE)) {
        		echo "Message detected<br>";  #just for debugging
        		$body=imap_body($mbox, $x);
        		/* code for parsing the message */
        	}
		}        	
	} 

This works very good.

The other possibility may be to open a connection to the POP server via

$fp = fsockopen ('pop3.your.provider.com', 110, $errno, $errstr, 30);

and to try communicating with it on that level, i.e. sending commands like USER, PASS, LIST, TOP, RETR, DELE ... but I haven't tried that

Hope it helps.