Alternative To IMAP For Checking POP3 Accounts?

[bradleydh]

Is there any alternative to checking a POP3 email account that the standard IMAP commands... My server isn't allowing me to use those.

[orangechicken]

I'd really love to know the answer to this too. Hopefully there's a method that does not use IMAP (imap_open is crashing on my host server and we can't find the problem) and has the ability to grab attachments.

TIA,
chicken

[orangehairedboy]

I've written several classes which connect to the POP3 server using sockets...maybe something like that would work for you?

[orangechicken]

yeah probably. If I can connect via a socket and grab the emails I can use the Pear MIMEmail class to decode them in to what I need (most likely).

links?

-chicken

[orangehairedboy]

Don't have any links unfortunatly...what code do you want and I'll get it to you...

[orangechicken]

whoa... we're both orange.

If you have classes / code that takes care of connecting to a POP3 server via sockets and can grab the emails in their entirety that's what I need.

This is really all I need:
a) connect to server
b) grab every email
c) after I've processed the email, delete it from server

Thanks a ton,
chicken

[dinger]

There are several POP3 classes in the code library on this site. Perhaps one of them may help you.

CHris

[orangehairedboy]

Well, let me give you the following then:

class POP3Mail
	{
	function Connect ( $HOST , $PORT , $TIMEOUT , $USERNAME , $PASSWORD )
		{
		$port = ( $PORT ) ? $PORT : "110";
		$timeout = ( $TIMEOUT ) ? $TIMEOUT : "60";
		$this->MyConnection = fsockopen( $HOST , $port , &$en , &$ed , $timeout );
		if ( ! $this->MyConnection )
			{
			return "111"; /* Unable to Connect to Host */
			}
		$this->Listen();
		$response = $this->Ask( "USER $USERNAME" );
		if ( $this->isError( $response ) )
			{
			return "121"; /* Invalid Username */
			}
		$response = $this->Ask( "PASS $PASSWORD" );
		if ( $this->isError( $response ) )
			{
			return "122"; /* Invalid Password */
			}
		$stats = explode ( " " , $this->Ask( "STAT" ) );
		$this->MailboxMessages = $stats[1];
		$this->MailboxSize = $stats[2];
		return "OK";
		}
	function GetMessage ( $message )
		{
		$body = $this->Ask( "RETR $message" , 1 );
		if ( $this->isError( $body[0] ) )
			{
			return "301"; /* Invalid RETR command */
			}
		array_shift( $body );
		return $body;
		}
	function DeleteMessage ( $message )
		{
		$this->Say( "DELE $message" );
		}
	function MessageCount ()
		{
		return $this->MailboxMessages;
		}
	function Disconnect ()
		{
		$this->Say( "QUIT" );
		fclose( $this->MyConnection );
		}

function Ask ( $command , $longanswer = 0 )
	{
	$this->Say( $command );
	$response = $this->Listen();
	if ( $longanswer )
		{
		while ( ! ( trim( $response ) == "." ) )
			{
			if ( ! ( trim( $response ) == "." ) )
				{
				$answer[] .= $response;
				$response = $this->Listen();
				}
			}
		$response = $answer;
		}
	return $response;
	}
function Say ( $command )
	{
	fputs ( $this->MyConnection , $command."\r\n" );
	}
function Listen ()
	{
	return fgets ( $this->MyConnection , $this->MyBuffer );
	}
function isError ( $response )
	{
	return ( substr( $line, 0, 3 ) == "-ER" ) ? TRUE : FALSE;
	}
}

Hope it's understandable...I had to strip it from a larger project. Here's how it should work:

$email = new POP3Mail;
$email->Connect($host,$port,$timtout,$username,$password);
for ($x = 0;$x<=$email->MessageCount;$x++)
	{
	$MyMessages[$x] = $email->GetMessage( $x );
	$email->DeleteMessage( $x );
	}
$email->Disconnect();

Hope this works for you! Let me know if it doesn't!

Lewis

[orangechicken]

Thanks, I'll definitely try it out tonight!

chicken

[orangechicken]

OK, tried it. Doesn't work for me. Connect() creates a resource ID correctly (I believe) but Listen() doesn't get a response.

Any way for me to doublecheck that it's successfully connecting?

-chicken

[orangehairedboy]

Ah...I see the problem. In the listen function, change $this->MyBuffer to 1024. That should make it work...

Sorry about that!

Lewis