Capture new Email event in PHP-IMAP in laravel - php

Question

I want to fetch all emails in inbox and store them in realtime but the way i m doing it is a little bit wrong :
it's something like this:
class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
...
$schedule->call(function () {
// connect using credentials
//get all emails
//copy emails
//delete emails when they get copied correctly
})->everyMinute(); // repeat
this Guarantees that the emails in the database will not be copied because the emails are no longer in the inbox .
But now we have a case where we need to keep these messages so we replaced this with :
// connect using credentials
//get all emails
//filter only unseen
//copy emails
//mark these emails as seen
But the problem of all of these solution is that we get emails .
The solution we did is working but added another problem of reloading same emails over and over .
I reread the Documentation and found this
possible solution :
Using events that triggers in the entire package and capture the new event witch gets triggered when a new email is received.
In this example i found some useful methods and classes .
class CustomMessageNewEvent extends Webklex\PHPIMAP\Events\MessageNewEvent {
/**
* Create a new event instance.
* #var \Webklex\PHPIMAP\Message[] $messages
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($messages) {
$this->message = $messages[0];
echo "New message: ".$this->message->subject."\n";
}
}
But i m not sure how to implement them in Laravel , juste where and how should i register / capture this `new` Event !
**Especially that we have multiple Client instances not only one ( foreach user ... )**
Thank you so much for reading all this and hopefully people find this question useful.

Answer 1

When I've done similar tasks in the past I've used the Message-ID defined in the email spec to identify each email uniquely.
You can use your IMAP library to get a list of emails with their Message-IDs, then compare those Message-IDs to your database. Just make sure you add a new field to your Email model (or whatever you've called it) to store the Message-ID.