accessing a pop3 mailbox

theMitch

I am trying to access my pop3 mailbox on my isp, I was trying to use the commands:

$server = "pop3.lineone.net";
$imap_open = "{" . $server . ":110/pop3}INBOX"
$mbox = imap_open($imap_open, $username, $password);

But all I get is the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in email.php on line 25

I am running this on a my web-hosts server which I believe is running the following:

PHP Version 4.2.3 on Linux (build Nov 29 2002 00:53:22)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Martin

matt_4013

Is safe_mode enabled on your server? I'm pretty sure the imap functions are disabled in safe mode. You can check it by creating a phpinfo script.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

theMitch

Hi Matt

Thanks for the quick reply. I ran phpinfo() and it says "Safe Mode Off"

Hmmmm.

Martin

matt_4013

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php

Check your phpinfo again, and look at the configure command. It needs to have --with-imap in there somewhere. If it doesn't, it wont work, as it isn't supported by default 🙂

theMitch

Aha, I checked and my configure command doesn't include with-imap 🙁

So is there no way around that? I guess it is upto my web-hosts to include it or not so it is out of my control?

Do you know why it should be off by default ... is it dangerous or something?

Thanks

Martin

matt_4013

RTFM 😉 Requires some extra libraries to be installed on the server to use, which aren't included with php, and as such off by default, and yep, all up to your web host. If they're a good one, you might be able to get them to change it 😉 If I need something included and it wont compromise server security my host never has a problem installing it! 🙂