Parse emails without IMAP

[luiddog]

I'm trying to parse emails on a yahoo server, which does not have IMAP. The only code that seems to work is the following:

<?
function getPOPMessageCount($username, $password, $server, $port = 110, $timeout = 30){
$sock = @fsockopen($server, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

  if (!$sock) die("Error opening socket ($errno): $errstr");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not respond OK.');
  fwrite($sock, "USER $username\r\n");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not accept username.');
  fwrite($sock, "PASS $password\r\n");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not accept password.');
  fwrite($sock, "STAT\r\n");
  $response = fgets($sock);
  if (substr($response, 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server sent invalid STAT response.');
    fwrite($sock, "QUIT\r\n");
    fclose($sock);

    return intval(substr($response, 4, strlen($response)));
}

print getPOPMessageCount('[e-mail]', 'pass', 'server.com');

?>

This returns the number of messages in the account, but I want to parse the subject and body. Any ideas?

[uidzer0b]

you can use

RETR <message number here> 

to get the message body.

[luiddog]

Thanks for the info. But I can't seem to make it work in this context. I'm currently using:

function getPOPMessageCount($username, $password, $server, $port = 110, $timeout = 30){
    $sock = @fsockopen($server, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

  if (!$sock) die("Error opening socket ($errno): $errstr");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not respond OK.');
  fwrite($sock, "USER $username\r\n");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not accept username.');
  fwrite($sock, "PASS $password\r\n");
  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not accept password.');
  fwrite($sock, "STAT\r\n");
  	  if (substr(fgets($sock), 0, 3) != '+OK') die('Server did not accept password.');
  fwrite($sock, "RETR\r\n");
  $response = fgets($sock);
    fwrite($sock, "QUIT\r\n");
    fclose($sock);

    return $response;
}

And I'm getting
-ERR argument(s) missing.