imap_mailboxmsginfo and IMAP connections

jacquex

I'm looking into using the imap_mailboxmsginfo in my application on every folder in the users account and it seems that I have to open an IMAP connection for each folder I'm checking. If the user has 100 folders in his account this would mean that I have to open (and close) 100 connections just to get the information about the folders. Some email providers don't like this behaviour. Is there anyway I can make the PHP IMAP package use the IMAP SELECT command which would just select a different folder while preserving the connection?

Many thanks.

drew010

http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-getmailboxes.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-list.php

you should be able to list the folders all in the same connection using these functions which return an array of boxes.

jacquex

Thanks drew010, this was helpfull but I still haven't found the solution. Basically, I need to list all the folders in an IMAP account and suffix the folders with unread/total messages in each folder. imap_list doesn't do the job, imap_getmailboxes might but I'm having problems finding what information is returned in each object of the array. Any clues? (I'm new to php, so please be understanding 😉 ).

I also tried the imap_status command, but didn't get satisfactory results. Is there a site somewhere with some sample code I could look at (google search for all things php isn't very helpfull - to many mirrors 🙁 )

drew010

i have a lot of experience with php, but very little with imap, so i have checked some functions and here is my best guess at a sample script to check out what folders there are and return how many messages and unread messages each box contains. hopefully it will work since i am unable to test it.

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drew010

here is some working code, there are only 2 changes, one is the object names were wrong, and 2, the imap_status had the wrong thing in the 2nd parameter.

<?php

$mbox = imap_open("{drew-phillips.com/imap}", "username", "pass", OP_HALFOPEN) or die("Imap Error: " . imap_last_error());

$boxes = imap_list($mbox, "{drew-phillips.com}", "*");

if (!$boxes) {
  die("no boxes listed");
}

foreach($boxes as $box) {
	$status = imap_status($mbox, $box, SA_ALL);

echo "<b>Mailbox $box</b><br />\n";
echo "- " . $status->messages . " messages<br />\n";
echo "- " . $status->unseen . " new messages<br />\n";
echo "<br />\n\n";
}

imap_close($mbox);

?>

www.drew-phillips.com/php/test.php

jacquex

Many thanks for your help, that did the job!