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Re: Check email [message #176764 is a reply to message #176761]

Sun, 22 January 2012 21:39

Arno Welzel
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Captain Paralytic, 2012-01-22 21:24:

> On Jan 22, 7:28 am, Arno Welzel <use...@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
>> sl@exabyte, 2012-01-22 04:16:
>>
>>> Is it possible to find out whether there are any new emails in a mailbox
>>> without logging in ?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> In other words, some PHP codes to return the number of new emails in a an
>>> email account.
>>
>> One approach:
>>
>> <?php
>> $server = "{pop3.example.com:110/pop3}INBOX";
>> $user = "m...@example.com";
>> $pass = "mypassword";
>> $messagecount = 0;
>>
>> $mbox = imap_open($server, $user, $passwd);
>> if($mbox)
>> {
>> $messagecount = imap_num_msg($mbox);
>> imap_close($mbox);}
>>
>> ?>
>
> Err the question was: Is it possible to find out whether there are any
> new emails in a mailbox
> without logging in ?

My answer was "no" - please read, what i wrote.

> Your solution logs in!

Of course, since it is usually not possible without logging in. If you
know a better way - feel free to post it here. But i assume, you also
don't know a better solution.

There is never a dumb question, just dumb answers ;-)

Well - one could check the filesystem of the mail server with PHP as
well and read the contents without logging in via IMAP/POP3 - but this
means, you need to have access to the filesystem via PP and you need to
know which software is used on the server etc. - i think this is far
beyond the knowledge of the OP.

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		Check email By: sl@exabyte on Sun, 22 January 2012 03:16
		Re: Check email By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 22 January 2012 04:15
		Re: Check email By: rataplanpupum on Sun, 22 January 2012 12:10
		Re: Check email By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 22 January 2012 07:28
		Re: Check email By: Captain Paralytic on Sun, 22 January 2012 20:24
		Re: Check email By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 22 January 2012 21:39
		Re: Check email By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Mon, 23 January 2012 08:41
		Re: Check email By: M. Strobel on Mon, 23 January 2012 09:11
		Re: Check email By: Redcat on Mon, 06 February 2012 23:20
		Re: Check email By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 07 February 2012 00:43

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