(PHP ActiveX) Mark IMAP Email as Read/Unread (Seen/Unseen)

Demonstrates how to mark emails as read or unread.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

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

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Imap')
$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
$imap->Ssl = 1;
$imap->Port = 993;
$success = $imap->Connect('imap.someMailServer.com');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Set PeekMode so that downloaded messages are not
// automatically marked as seen.
$imap->PeekMode = 1;

// The NumMessages property contains the number of messages 
// in the currently selected mailbox.
$numMsgs = $imap->NumMessages;
if ($numMsgs == 0) {
    exit;
}

for ($i = 1; $i <= $numMsgs; $i++) {
    // Download each email by sequence number (not UID)

    // email is a Chilkat.Email
    $email = $imap->FetchSingle($i,0);
    if ($imap->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
        print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    // If desired, mark the email as SEEN.  There are two
    // ways to do it:

    // 1) Set the flag directly by using the sequence number
    // Indicate that we are passing a sequence number and
    // not a UID:
    $bIsUid = 0;
    // Set the SEEN flag = 1 to mark the email as SEEN,
    // or set it to 0 to mark it as not-seen.
    $success = $imap->SetFlag($i,$bIsUid,'SEEN',1);
    if ($success != 1) {
        print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    // 2) Alternatively, we can use the email object.
    // When an email is downloaded from the IMAP server
    // Chilkat will add a "ckx-imap-uid" header to the email.
    // This makes it possible to know the UID associated with
    // the email.  (This is not the sequence number, which may change
    // from session to session, but the UID which does not change.
    // The SetMailFlag method is identical to SetFlag, except
    // it gets the UID from the ckx-imap-uid header.
    // For example:
    $success = $imap->SetMailFlag($email,'SEEN',1);
    if ($success != 1) {
        print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
        exit;
    }

}

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

?>