Introduction

These functions enable you to operate with the IMAP protocol, as well as the NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access methods.
Be warned, however, that some IMAP functions will not work correctly with the POP protocol.
User Contributed Notes

Wil Barath
6 years ago

For all the people coming here praying for:

1) a dead-easy way to read MIME attachments, or
2) a dead-easy way to access POP3 folders

Look no further.

<?php 
function pop3_login($host,$port,$user,$pass,$folder="INBOX",$ssl=false)
{
    $ssl=($ssl==false)?"/novalidate-cert":"";
    return (imap_open("{"."$host:$port/pop3$ssl"."}$folder",$user,$pass));
}
function pop3_stat($connection)        
{
    $check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($imap);
    return ((array)$check);
}
function pop3_list($connection,$message="")
{
    if ($message)
    {
        $range=$message;
    } else {
        $MC = imap_check($mbox);
        $range = "1:".$MC->Nmsgs;
    }
    $response = imap_fetch_overview($mbox,$range);
    foreach ($response as $msg) $result[$msg->msgno]=(array)$msg;
}
function pop3_retr($connection,$message)
{
    return(imap_fetchheader($connection,$message,FT_PREFETCHTEXT));
}
function pop3_dele($connection,$message)
{
    return(imap_delete($connection,$message));
}
function mail_parse_headers($headers)
{
    $headers=preg_replace('/\r\n\s+/m', '',$headers);
    preg_match_all('/([^: ]+): (.+?(?:\r\n\s(?:.+?))*)?\r\n/m', $headers, $matches);
    foreach ($matches[1] as $key =>$value) $result[$value]=$matches[2][$key];
    return($result);
}
function mail_mime_to_array($imap,$mid,$parse_headers=false)
{
    $mail = imap_fetchstructure($imap,$mid);
    $mail = mail_get_parts($imap,$mid,$mail,0);
    if ($parse_headers) $mail[0]["parsed"]=mail_parse_headers($mail[0]["data"]);
    return($mail);
}
function mail_get_parts($imap,$mid,$part,$prefix)
{    
    $attachments=array();
    $attachments[$prefix]=mail_decode_part($imap,$mid,$part,$prefix);
    if (isset($part->parts)) // multipart
    {
        $prefix = ($prefix == "0")?"":"$prefix.";
        foreach ($part->parts as $number=>$subpart) 
            $attachments=array_merge($attachments, mail_get_parts($imap,$mid,$subpart,$prefix.($number+1)));
    }
    return $attachments;
}
function mail_decode_part($connection,$message_number,$part,$prefix)
{
    $attachment = array();

    if($part->ifdparameters) {
        foreach($part->dparameters as $object) {
            $attachment[strtolower($object->attribute)]=$object->value;
            if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'filename') {
                $attachment['is_attachment'] = true;
                $attachment['filename'] = $object->value;
            }
        }
    }

    if($part->ifparameters) {
        foreach($part->parameters as $object) {
            $attachment[strtolower($object->attribute)]=$object->value;
            if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'name') {
                $attachment['is_attachment'] = true;
                $attachment['name'] = $object->value;
            }
        }
    }

    $attachment['data'] = imap_fetchbody($connection, $message_number, $prefix);
    if($part->encoding == 3) { // 3 = BASE64
        $attachment['data'] = base64_decode($attachment['data']);
    }
    elseif($part->encoding == 4) { // 4 = QUOTED-PRINTABLE
        $attachment['data'] = quoted_printable_decode($attachment['data']);
    }
    return($attachment);
}
?>