PHP Extension

IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.) PHP Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$imap = new CkImap();

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
$imap->put_Ssl(true);
$imap->put_Port(993);
$success = $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');
if ($success == false) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if ($success == false) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success == false) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
// will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
// You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
// fetch each message by sequence number.

$bUid = false;

$n = $imap->get_NumMessages();
for ($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    $mimeStr = $imap->fetchSingleAsMime($i,$bUid);

    // ... your application may process each MIME string...
}

// An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
// email object, like this:
$email = new CkEmail();
for ($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    $success = $imap->FetchEmail(false,$i,$bUid,$email);

    // ... your application may process the email object...

}

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Disconnect();

?>