Thanks for your answer. In my case I have the IMAP extensions available, but
more appropriate is always good and after testing a bit more I start liking it.
The mime parser would be my next step.
But before I do that I have a general question about dealing with mails.
Would you recommend to leave all mails on the pop server or download them to
the server where my web application is running and then access them from there?
I was thinking it is better do download them because it would be easier to manage
them. For example mark them as read, answered and so forth.
In case I download them to the server... would you rather store only the header
information in a DB (all info needed to display them in a list) and store the mails
as .eml files or would you store them into a db as well?
Sorry for asking so many questions but I am a still a novice when it comes to application
structure and I don't want to change the whole thing after realising that I messed it up :-).
Cheers, Max
----- Original Message ----
From: Manuel Lemos <mlemos@xxxxxxx>
To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:20:33 AM
Subject: Re: Manuel Lemos's Pop3 Class
Hello,
on 01/14/2008 04:29 PM m.frigge said the following:
> Hey there,
>
> I had a look at this class
> and I am wondering why it
> doesn't use the imap functions
> of Php. Sorry if this is a stupid
> question but are there any advantages
> in using this class instead of
> using the imap functions. I mean
> the debugging function is really
> nice, but I can't even just get the
> header information to list all the
> emails in Inbox .. (plz correct me
> if I am wrong).
>
> Has anyone ever checked the performance
> compare to the imap functions???
The IMAP extension is not available in all PHP installations.
Furthermore, the POP3 class is more appropriate to access POP3 mailboxes
because it supports POP3 specific directly.
One neat thing it provides is the ability to open messages in a POP3
mailbox like they were files, for instance like this:
$message =
file_get_contents( 'pop3://user: password@ pop3.server. com/message_ number_here');
You can also use this to parse your messages and extract its details
using in comabination with the MIME parser class:
http://www.phpclass es.org/mimeparse r
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