Loading emails from POP or SMTP

[king.oslo]

Ello my friends,

 

I want to write a file where I can read my emails.

 

How do I do this? Where can I learn about this?

 

Marius

[l0ve2hat3]

<?php
function show_mails($server, $account, $password)
{
$mailbox = imap_open("{".$server.":110/pop3}INBOX", $account, $password);
$mails = imap_fetch_overview($mailbox,"1:*", FT_UID); // This is fetching an overview of all emails

// Output as a table:
$return = '<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td><b>#</b></td>
<td><b>From</b></td>
<td><b>Date / Time</b></td>
<td><b>Subject</b></td>
</tr>';
$size = count($mails); // Number of messages
$cmsg = 0; // This is used to have a continously number
for($i=$size-1;$i>=0;$i--)
{
$cmsg++;
$value = $mails[$i];
$return .= '<tr><td>'.$cmsg.'</td><td>'.$value->from.'</td><td>'.$value->date.'</td><td><a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?id='.$value->msgno.'">'.$value->subject.'</a></td></tr>';
}
$return .= '</table>';
imap_close($mailbox);
return $return;
}

function show_mail($id, $server, $account, $password)
{
$mailbox = imap_open("{".$server.":110/pop3}INBOX", $account, $password);
$mail = imap_body($mailbox,$id, FT_UID);
// This is fetching the email..
$mail = htmlentities(stripslashes($mail));
/* stripslashes is stripping the slashes, htmlentities transforms all of the non-regular symbols to their equal html code expression. */
$return = '<pre>'.$mail.'</pre>';
imap_close($mailbox);
return $return;
}

if(isset($_GET['id']))
if(is_numeric($_GET['id']))
echo show_mail($_GET['id'], "YourServerAddress", "Account", "Password");
else
echo 'wrong parameter';
else
echo show_mails("YourServerAddress", "Account", "Password");
?>

 

in linux you can pipe emails to a php script as well

[king.oslo]

Thanks,

 

What do these two functions do?

 

Marius