- Fetch, delete and undelete messages from an IMAP mailbox.
- Decode encodings (for instance from base64).
- Decode all character sets to UTF-8 (for instance from Latin1).
- Works with PHP 5.3+
composer require mlocati/imap
<?php
require_once 'autoload.php';
use MLocati\IMAP\Client;
require_once 'autoload.php'; // Not required if you use composer
// Connect to the mailbox
$client = new Client(
'MailboxLogin',
'MailboxPassword',
'imap.server.com',
'/tls'
);
// List messages
foreach ($client->getMessages() as $message) {
echo '#Subject: ', $message->getSubject(), "\n";
if ($message->getDate() !== null) {
echo ' Date: ', $message->getDate()->format('c'), "\n";
}
echo ' From: ', $message->getFrom(), "\n";
echo ' To: ', $message->getTo(), "\n";
echo ' Message ID: ', $message->getID(), "\n";
echo ' Marked for deletion? ', $message->isDeleted() ? 'yes' : 'no', "\n";
echo " Total message parts: ", count($message->getAllParts()), "\n";
printPart($message->getRootPart(), 0);
if ($message->getSubject() == 'Hi!') {
$message->delete();
} elseif ($message->isDeleted()) {
$message->undelete();
}
}
// Delete all messages marked for deletion.
$client->expunge();
function printPart(MLocati\IMAP\MessagePart $part, $deepLevel)
{
$indent = str_repeat(" ", $deepLevel + 1);
echo $indent, "#ContentType: ", $part->getFullType(), "\n";
echo $indent, " Name: ", $part->getName(), "\n";
echo $indent, " Description: ", $part->getDescription(), "\n";
echo $indent, " Disposition: ", $part->getDisposition(), "\n";
echo $indent, " DispositionName: ", $part->getDispositionName(), "\n";
echo $indent, " Content: ", strlen($part->getContents()), " bytes\n";
$children = $part->getParts();
if (empty($children)) {
echo $indent, " No child parts\n";
} else {
echo $indent, " ", count($children)," child part(s):\n";
foreach ($children as $child) {
printPart($child, $deepLevel + 1);
}
}
}
Sample output:
#Subject: Sample message
Date: 2016-11-02T13:31:40+01:00
From: Sender Name <sender@address.com>
To: recipient@address.com
Message ID: <12345@address.com>
Marked for deletion? yes
Total message parts: 1
#ContentType: text/html
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 1129 bytes
No child parts
#Subject: This is "à" <t>èst
Date: 2016-11-16T08:30:08+01:00
From: second.sender@address.com
To: recipient@address.com
Message ID: <67890@address.com>
Marked for deletion? no
Total message parts: 8
#ContentType: multipart/mixed
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 0 bytes
3 child part(s):
#ContentType: multipart/alternative
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 0 bytes
2 child part(s):
#ContentType: text/plain
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 198 bytes
No child parts
#ContentType: multipart/related
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 0 bytes
2 child part(s):
#ContentType: text/html
Name:
Description:
Disposition:
DispositionName:
Content: 813 bytes
No child parts
#ContentType: image/png
Name: Test.png
Description:
Disposition: inline
DispositionName: Test.png
Content: 3118 bytes
No child parts
#ContentType: application/octet-stream
Name: Test.7z
Description:
Disposition: attachment
DispositionName: Test.7z
Content: 2831 bytes
No child parts
#ContentType: application/zip
Name: Test.zip
Description:
Disposition: attachment
DispositionName: Test.zip
Content: 2891 bytes
No child parts