imap_mail
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)
imap_mailboxmsginfo
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
imap_mailboxmsginfo — Get 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.
Return Values
Returns the information in an object with following properties:
| Date | date of last change |
| 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: " . $check->Size . "<br />\n" ;
} else {
echo "imap_check() failed: " . imap_last_error() . "<br />\n";
}
imap_close($mbox);
?>
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User Contributed Notesimap_mailboxmsginfo
Maxg
30-Aug-2004 02:41
30-Aug-2004 02:41
m at tacker dot org
12-Mar-2003 01:55
12-Mar-2003 01:55
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
03-Mar-2003 02:13
03-Mar-2003 02:13
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
20-Sep-2002 07:29
20-Sep-2002 07:29
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
11-Aug-2002 01:13
11-Aug-2002 01:13
imap_get_quota need you to be the admin of the mail server !
dolce at koulikov dot cc
12-Jan-2002 10:57
12-Jan-2002 10:57
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!
whw at my169 dot com
04-Jan-2002 07:35
04-Jan-2002 07:35
It is very slow,so don't use it to get mailbox size,used imap_get_quota instead.