Connect to gmail?

[playa4real]

Hey,

I am trying to connect to my gmail account using the script below, but i can't connect. Does anyone know how to do this or what i am doing wrong. I essentially want to fetch my emails and then parse them... Any help is appreciated!

$mail = @imap_open('{pop.gmail.com:995/novalidate-cert/pop3/ssl}',
'******@gmail.com', 'password')
or die("Connection to server failed");

i have enabled pop3 forwarding in gmail.. im using XAMPP (apache, mercurymail, mysql, php and all of that good stuff) and am currently working off of localhost.

Thanks!

[crazychris]

take the @ off the @imap_open and see what error it returns

[jmrouleau]

yea...also just try running it without the or die....so it shows all errors. Then post

[playa4real]

if i remove the @ then this is the error thats posted..

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {pop.gmail.com:995/novalidate-cert/pop3/ssl} in C:\Program Files\xampp\webdav\testMailConnect.php on line 8

line 8 reads:
$mail = imap_open('{pop.gmail.com:995/novalidate-cert/pop3/ssl}', '[e-mail]', 'password'')

when the @ is included, no errors are listed..

i have not written any other lines of code, because if i can't get it to connect then I cant really do much else after that...

i am new with PHP and i was basically following the PHP cookbook by O'reilly, but its not helping..haha..

any other ideas guys?

thanks for ur help..

[jmrouleau]

GMail doesn't currently support IMAP. You should be able to use this same function by using the flag /pop3

Here is the config for GMail

[bpat1434]

he's using the pop3 flag already (third flag or so), but I think it's incorrect....

Try this:

$mail = imap_open('{pop.gmail.com:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}', '[e-mail]', 'password'');

That as adapted from php.net:

// To connect to an SSL IMAP or POP3 server with a self-signed certificate,
// add /ssl/novalidate-cert after the protocol specification:
$mbox = imap_open ("{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}", "user_id", "password");