imap problem

[mhoward]

I am opening my mailbox and displaying the number of messages and inread messages...

$mbox = imap_open ("{localhost:110/pop3}INBOX", "$user", "$emailpass");
		if ( $mbox === false )	{
				session_unregister("accno");
				session_unregister("user");
				session_unregister("pass");
				session_unregister("fullname");
				session_unregister("emailaddr");
				session_unregister("pop");
				session_unregister("smtp");
				session_unregister("timeout");
			echo "Unable to open your mailbox";
			die();
		}
		$msg = imap_num_msg( $mbox );
		$unread = imap_num_recent( $mbox ); 

The problem I have is $unread = 1042216135

There are actually 0 unread messages in the mailbox. $msg is correct as it shows 0.

Can anyone help?

[PhotoBoy]

You're connecting using POP3 mate, some of the IMAP functions won't work with it. Things like read message flags are not part of the POP3 standard.

If you're running Linux and Qmail something like Courier IMAP can do the job, it works with recent flags and allows you to create folders etc.