imap help?

[bjblackmore]

Hi,
I am trying to write a web based email application. I have managed to get it to connect to my web server using imap, and display the headers, however they come out like..
1) 8-Jan-2002 Ben Blackmore Re: Subject (1811 chars)
How can I split this information into the correct columns of my table? I need id, date, from, subject and size. My code so far is..
function check_mail(){
$imap = imap_open("{imap3.domain.com:143}INBOX", 'username', 'password');
$headers = imap_headers ($imap);
if ($headers == false) {
echo "Call failed<br>\n";
} else {
while (list ($key,$val) = each ($headers)) {

    echo '$val';
}

}
Cheers
Ben Blackmore

[nashirak]

instead of getting all the headers you could just get one at a time: (loop). You might want to sort them also:

$array = IMAP_SORT($imap,1,1);

then get the individual messages by
$msg = IMAP_HEADER($imap,$array[$i]);

(where $i is incrimented in a loop)

after you get each message individually then you can get all your information:

id: $id = imap_uid($imap,$array[$i]);

date: $date = $msg->Date;

from: $from = $msg->from[0];
$personal = $from->personal;
$from = "$from->mailbox@$from->host";

(any of which will do)

Subject: $subject = $msg->Subject;

Size: $size = $msg->Size;

Hope this helps!

[lentin64]

Use the overview code for this...

function check_mail() {
$mbox=imap_open("{imap3.domain.com}","username","password");
$overview=imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"1:".imap_num_msg($mbox),0);
$s=sizeof($overview);
/
You get to the part now to sort through email.
/
for($i=$s-1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
$val=$overview[$i];
$id = $val->msgno;
$from = $val->from;
$date = $val->date;
$subject = $val->subject;
$size = $val->size;
// Edit this HTML:
echo "date: $date | id: $id | from: $from | subject: $subject | size: $size<BR>";
}
}

[bjblackmore]

Many thanks, it worked perfectly. Also do you know anything about arrays?
I want to try and pull the emails from multiple accounts, so I set up..

$mailserver[1]['hostname']='mail.host.com';
$mailserver[1]['username']='username';
$mailserver[1]['password']='password';
$mailserver[1]['port']='110';
$mailserver[1]['type']='pop3';

$mailserver[2]['hostname']='post.domain.com';
$mailserver[2]['username']='user';
$mailserver[2]['password']='passwd';
etc....

I want to cycle thought the accounts, and pick up the mail from each one. Do you know how to do this?
Cheers
Ben