php code issue - please help

[lizmcreations]

Hi,

Ok, I have a reseller hosting account which I use to sell the hosting for the websites I develop and many of them have an autoresponder script that I install on them. The cron jobs are in php and the one to check the e-mail account for bounced messages and delete the messages is not working properly.

All accounts are running php 4.4.4 - and all accounts are installed exactly the same and have the same file - cron.pop3.php installed. However, the code does not work in all accounts.

In most accounts, the following code:
// Add here to delete read email
imap_delete($mbox,'1:*');
// Mark As Deletion


// Purge email before closing
imap_expunge($mbox);

// Connection close
@imap_close($mbox);

///////////////////////////////////
works as it should and marks all the messages for deletion and deletes them. But in a few accounts - the following error is received:

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: imap_delete(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in
<b>/home/passivei/public_html/ema/cron.pop3.php</b> on line <b>423</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: imap_expunge(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in
<b>/home/passivei/public_html/ema/cron.pop3.php</b> on line <b>428</b><br />

Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be the issue? The files are exactly the same but it works in one installation and not in another. I am at a loss to figure out what the issue is. PHP is not really a language I am fully familiar with, I didn't create the file, I simply added the delete messages lines based on my research.

If anyone has ANY suggestions or ideas that might be of help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,

Liz Martinez

[bpat1434]

The resource object that is "$mbox" isn't what you expect it to be. So wherever you create $mbox for that particular mailbox, it's failing. Something is going wrong. Could be a username and password issue, could be an options issue.

If the user changes their password, does your script get updated automatically? If not, then you need to have your script updated each time they do. Otherwise, the login fails and $mbox isn't a resource, but is "false".

You can check to see if the imap login worked by doing:

$mbox = imap_connect('{imap.domain.tld:443}INBOX', 'username', 'password');
if(!is_resource($mbox))
    die('Failed to connect!');

Note also that you could cut out a line in your code if you add an option to the imap_connect() line:

$mbox = imap_connect('{imap.domain.tld:443}INBOX', 'username', 'password', CL_EXPUNGE);

if(!is_resource($mbox))
    die('IMAP login failed for "username"');

imap_delete($mbox,'1:*');

@imap_close($mbox);

The "CL_EXPUNGE" will automatically expunge the mailbox upon exit. Just an option, not a requirement.