How can I collect mail with php?

[OhLordy]

How can I collect mail via POP3 with php. I can't find any built in functions but is there a work around?
Thanks in advance
Rob

[sivasankari_kv]

Login.php
<?php

if (!$PHP_AUTH_USER) {
Header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"Mail Chek\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
} else {
$MYDIR=ereg_replace("/[^{/]+$","",$PHP_SELF);}
Header("Location: $SERVER_NAME$MYDIR/messages.php");
}

?>

messages.php

<?php

$MAILSERVER="{localhost/imap}";
$link=imap_open($MAILSERVER,$PHP_AUTH_USER,$PHP_AUTH_PW);
$headers=imap_headers($link);

for($x=1; $x < count($headers); $x++) {
$idx=($x-1);
echo "<a href=\"view.php3?num=$x\">$headers[$idx]</a><br>";
}

?>

view.php

<?php

$MAILSERVER="{localhost/imap}";
$link=imap_open($MAILSERVER,$PHP_AUTH_USER,$PHP_AUTH_PW);
$header=imap_header($link,$num);

echo "From: $header[fromaddress]<br>";
echo "To: $header[toaddress]<br>";
echo "Date: $header[Date]<br>";
echo "Subject: $header[Subject]<br><br>";
echo imap_body($link,$num);

?>

Try this out

[OhLordy]

A couple of questions
What are the variables $PHP_AUTH_USER, $PHP_AUTH_PW ?
and doe the newest email come out as the first or last element in the array?
and what format is the date returned in?
Thanx Rob

[sivasankari_kv]

It's ur imap servers login details and the new mails come first in the array the date in dd/mm/yyyy hⓂs

[OhLordy]

I do not have IMAP on the mail server so I building my own mail handler with fsockopen etc...
It's only a very simply thing. I need to be able to retuirieve one email, process it forward it and then delete it from the mailbox. Everything is working fine exept for the actual revieving of the body of the message.
What I need to know is what should the first line recieved from the mail server look like for

RETR 1

Thanks in advance
Rob

[OhLordy]

Just been checking out what happens with the commands via telnet and found that the very last line of the whole email message is a dot the exact same thing that is being returned as the first line of the email.???

[OhLordy]

I've checked to see if it's returning as an array I've done print_r on it and I just can't find out where it's going wrong.

I've also tried running the fgets line in a while loop like

while($reply.=fgets($fp,128)) {}

as aposed to just on it's own like

$reply=fgets($fp,$this->BUFFER);

but that just hangs.

Any help would be appreciated
I'm running out of ideas.
Rob

[OhLordy]

Right this is going to be the last one for a while now. (Unless I solve the problem of course)
I have narrowed the problem down to this code,
$num=1

<?
$feed="RETR ".$num."\r\n";
echo("value of feed is ".$feed."<br>");
fwrite($fp,$feed);
$reply=fgets($fp,1024);
if(!$this->chec_ok($reply)) {
  $this->ERROR="getMail: error=".$reply."<br>";
  return false;
}

?>

In the browser $feed comes up as "RETR 1" and $this->ERROR as "getMail: error=."
Thanks
Rob

[OhLordy]

I have resoilved it but I don't understand why what I did managed to fix it.

instead of

<?
$reply=fgets($fp,1024);
?>

i did

<?
$buff=fgetc($fp);
while($buff!="\n" && $buff!="\r") {
  $reply.=$buff
  $buff=fgetc($fp);
}
?>

As far as I can see this should do exactly the same as fgets. What is the exact special character that fgets searches for?
Does anyone have any ideas about this phenomenon?
Thanks Rob