PHP 7.0.6 Released

imap_mailboxmsginfo

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

imap_mailboxmsginfoGet information about the current mailbox

Description

object imap_mailboxmsginfo ( resource $imap_stream )

Checks the current mailbox status on the server. It is similar to imap_status(), but will additionally sum up the size of all messages in the mailbox, which will take some additional time to execute.

Parameters

imap_stream

An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

Return Values

Returns the information in an object with following properties:

Mailbox properties
Date date of last change (current datetime)
Driver driver
Mailbox name of the mailbox
Nmsgs number of messages
Recent number of recent messages
Unread number of unread messages
Deleted number of deleted messages
Size mailbox size

Returns FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 imap_mailboxmsginfo() example

<?php

$mbox 
imap_open("{imap.example.org}INBOX""username""password")
      or die(
"can't connect: " imap_last_error());

$check imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);

if (
$check) {
    echo 
"Date: "     $check->Date    "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Driver: "   $check->Driver  "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Mailbox: "  $check->Mailbox "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Messages: " $check->Nmsgs   "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Recent: "   $check->Recent  "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Unread: "   $check->Unread  "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Deleted: "  $check->Deleted "<br />\n" ;
    echo 
"Size: "     $check->Size    "<br />\n" ;
} else {
    echo 
"imap_mailboxmsginfo() failed: " imap_last_error() . "<br />\n";
}

imap_close($mbox);

?>

User Contributed Notes

phrank
6 years ago
imap_mailboxmsginfo() is NOT similar to imap_status(). You will easily recognize that if you compare the prototypes:

object imap_mailboxmsginfo  (  resource $imap_stream  )

object imap_status  (  resource $imap_stream  ,  string $mailbox  ,  int $options  )

One SIGNIFICANT difference is that imap_mailboxmsginfo() gets the mailbox name from the stream resource and imap_status() requires any mailbox name as second argument.
Maxg
11 years ago
About the slowness of imap_mailboxmsginfo() : if used on an IMAP connection, I did checked my mailserver logs and it appeared to send FETCH commands to retrieve the headers of EVERY messages of the mailbox ...
So, if you have, let's say, 400 messages in a folder, the function will be very slow (>1.5 sec on a local server !) ...

I strongly advise you to use imap_status() instead, which only sends one < STATUS "Mailbox/Name" (MESSAGES UNSEEN) > and is actually a lot faster (at least with IMAP, but that's maybe not true with POP3)
m at tacker dot org
13 years ago
The runtime difference between imap_status and imap_mailboxmsginfo is very significant on large mailboxes

<?php

/** opening connection to a
   * mailbox with 3987 messages
   * and retrive status information **/
$mbox = imap_open ('{mail.somwhere.com:110}', $user, $password);

$mbox_info = imap_status($mbox, '{mail.somwhere.com:110}INBOX', SA_MESSAGES);
/** took 11.05 seconds **/

$mbox_info = imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
/** took 6 minutes 5.382 seconds **/

?>
til_roque at yahoo dot com
13 years ago
the 'recent' of this function returns the same as 'UIDvalidity' from imap_status() ... makes no sense (or dos it?)
js at jerntorget dot se, ej at jerntorget dot se
13 years ago
then use imap_get_quotaroot().....

or use this one (works with qmail):
function get_quotaroot() {
if(!$socket = @fsockopen("your server", your port);
    return false;
fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a001 LOGIN ".$username." ".$password."\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a002 GETQUOTAROOT INBOX\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
$result = fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a003 LOGOUT\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
sscanf($result, '* QUOTA "ROOT" (STORAGE %d %d MESSAGE %d %d', $usedSize, $maxSize, $usedNum, $maxNum);
return array("usedSize" => $usedSize, "maxSize" => $maxSize, "usedNum" => $usedNum, "maxNum" => $maxNum);
}
stephane-wantiez at tiscalinet dot be
13 years ago
imap_get_quota need you to be the admin of the mail server !
whw at my169 dot com
14 years ago
It is very slow,so don't use it to get mailbox size,used imap_get_quota instead.
dolce at koulikov dot cc
14 years ago
Don't lie... I've timed it, there is merely a time difference, besides it returns a lot of other useful info packed in an object!
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