UID of Emails?

Kale

Ok, I'm designing a web-based Email reader for the members of my website. Everthing has been working great until I get to the point I'm setting flags 🙁 I'm using the IMAP commands, and I need either the UID or the Message sequence number to use the imap_setflag_full() command so I can set the seen flag. I can get either one of these using the IMAP commands, problem is I need one or the other for the command to give me the other (ex I need the Message Sequence Number to get the UID of the message) I have looked at RFC's and everthing else I can think of, nothing has told me how to extract the UID or the sequence number of the message. This is becoming rather annoying if I must say. Any help anyone could provide would be more then appriciated, the owners of my server (www.phpwebhosting...they are very good despite this problem) told me, when I asked them, that this went above their expertise...great, huh? Thanks ahead of time to anyone who is able to shead a little light on this for me!

Thanks,
K`ale
Kylosa.com Programmer and Owner

diego25

Don't you need the UID or the message number to fetch the individual message?

Are you using imap_headers() (the plural one)? I think it does return the UID...

Diego

Kale

Well...I'm using the number that was returned in my code for which message it is in the mailbox. I thought that was the sequence number, but its not setting any of my flags using that number. I am using the $Headers = imap_headerinfo($MailBox, $msgNumber); You say I should use the imap_headers() command? It returns all headers for all messages in the supplied mailbox...What would I need to do to extract the UID of the message? Everytime I look at examples for using the imap_setflag_full() command its showing the message sequence number as: "1,2" But if I use just "1" it doesn't do anything.

This is my instruction to open the mailbox:
$MailBox = @imap_open("{mail.kylosa.com:110/pop3}INBOX", $Login, $Access) or die("Error, Can't open Mail server! ".imap_last_error());

Am I doing something wrong there? I've read that you need to open the mailbox with read/write access...the only option I show to use is to open with readonly, so I am taking for granted the default when you open is Read/Write. Though I could be wrong. Thanks for your help, do you think you could help me a little more?

Thanks,
K`ale

diego25

But you're connecting to a POP3 ....and AFAIK, POP3 doesn't support "flags". Only IMAP supports flags. Yes, it says in the manual to use IMAP functions to access POP3 accounts, but that doesn't mean that POP3 has all the features that IMAP has...

Diego

Kale

facefaults Go figure. I've been sitting here, for around a week trying to figure this mess out and it doesn't support flags. Thats just wonderful. Well...Looks like storing it all in a DBASE is my other option. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks,
K`ale

Kale

BTW, if it doesn't support flags...then how do I delete the messages in the mail box? Just use the expunge command and not worry about marking the "Delete" Flag?

diego25

Read this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-delete.php

It tells you that you'll have to mark the message for delete (the only flag supported in POP3) and expunge it in the same connection coz it won't keep the flag for the next time you connect.

Diego