Check multiple e-mails with PHP.

[Teach]

Hiya.

I had an idea today, and just wondered how easy it'd be to accomplish.
Say we have 6 e-mail mailboxes, (using POP3/SMTP), would it be easy to check those through PHP for new mails?

For example, on a page called 'newmail.php' there'd be a list of the 6 accounts. Say these accounts are: mail1 -> mail6, the page would report:

mail1 = No new e-mails.
mail2 = 1 new e-mails.
mail3 = 2 new e-mails.
mail4 = No new e-mails.
mail5 = No new e-mails.
mail6 = Unable to connect.

Something like that?
The "Unable to connect" instead of some generic PHP error, and if a password is wrong, or the mailserver is down, or for whatever reason it cannot check...

I'm using PHP 4.3.2 on Zeus WebServer, and my webhost says our mail servers do support IMAP.

Thanks if you can provide any guidance with this.

Regards,

[planetsim]

Its great your mail servers support IMAP but is IMAP installed.

Yes this is quite possible however id expect more than likely you will encounter timeouts. So you might need to higher the timeout limit.

[Teach]

Hiya.
Thanks for your reply.

IMAP is indeed installed too.
Regarding the timeout, I have no code yet. 😕

[ZibingsCoder]

Won't give you code, but I can perhaps help you get some ideas on what -you- can code.

My suggestion would be use a good old class and just have the class capable to handle multiple IMAP connections.