Php Imap Functions

[jpepper]

In messing around with the php imap functions I found that the imap_header and imap_headerinfo functions cause the whole page not to load as soon as they were called. I am able to successfully get the body of a message but not the header. I also found the same behavior when I tried to use pofHQ-wapMAIL program. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Thanks

[borfast]

I never used the IMAP stuff in PHP so I'm not sure what it could be but I suggest you run the script on your computer and use a sniffer to capture analyze the IMAP traffic between your computer and the server.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums jpepper!

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, jpepper!

 

I don't really know anything about PHP's IMAP functions, but I did find the following in the PHP documentation (and comments):

 

1) imap_header() is an alias of imap_headerinfo() - they are the same function.

 

2) One comment noted that some IMAP servers don't support imap_headerinfo(), and recommended using imap_fetch_overview instead.

 

3) One comment noted that calling imap_headerinfo() after calling imap_body() didn't work for them - they had to change their script to call imap_headerinfo() before imap_body().

 

Beyond that, I think you'd need to post what code you're using and what error you're seeing (if any), and maybe someone here can figure out why it does not work.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums jpepper

[borfast]

Sorry, I missed this part:

 

Welcome to the forums, jpepper!

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums!

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, jpepper.

[jpepper]

Thanks all. Good to be here.

 

I found that imap_fetch_overview had the same problem as imap_header_info. It crashed the page. I did however find that imap_fetchheader was able to get the raw header. I then hacked together a my_imap_header to fetch the header and parse it. That seems to work, but you loose all the Unseen and Recent information about the email. I will try all this from a different box to see if it is the imap servers issue or something about the php compilation we are using.

 

Thanks again

jpepper