Possible to recieve email data

[makoinater]

Is it possible to recieve any data from an email account with php? I'v heard of people sending email with php.
does any one have any code that can say get the number of unread messages in your inbox ?, I have a database which contains all email details ina table with fields pop3 sever, username password etc

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld makoinater,

try these
[php.net...]

[makoinater]

Cheers man glad to be here, just startin to get into the php..
That looks pretty intense is that the actual php code thats been listed,
It isn't really explained .

[cameraman]

It's not so bad; ignore the top page for now and start investigating the functions.
This should get you started - replace the email address & password with valid ones:

$mbox = imap_open('{localhost:143}','[e-mail]','password',0,1);
if(!$mbox)
echo "<p>Failed to open.</p>\n";
else {
$props = imap_check($mbox);
echo "<div>Result of imap_check()</div>\n<pre>";
print_r($props);
echo "</pre>\n";
if($props) {
if($props->Nmsgs) {
$overview = imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"1:{$props->Nmsgs}",0);
echo "<hr><div>These are the message objects:</div>\n";
echo "<pre>";
foreach($overview as $message)
print_r($message);
echo "</pre>";
}// EndIf have message(s)
else echo "<p>No messages</p>";
}// EndIf got properties
else
echo "<p>Check didn't.</p>";
imap_close($mbox);
}// EndElse opened mailbox

[makoinater]

cool looks good , I assume that you change the localhost to whichever IMAP server and port or can you only use this for email addresses on your server? , Iv looked up for gmail and got,

$mbox = imap_open('{imap.gmail.com:993}','[e-mail]','***',0,1);

you can see it in action here-

<snip>

its my main email account, I do know that gmail needs ssl on which might be causing trouble , what parameters do the 0 and 1 control

[edited by: eelixduppy at 2:34 am (utc) on April 9, 2008]
[edit reason] removed link [/edit]

[cameraman]

You can see the parameters on the page:
imap_open [php.net]