PHP Displaying unread mail count - php

Question

I am using php imap class.
In my box I have a lot of mail, but with this script I would retrieve only the unreaded mail.
How can I do it?
if ($mbox=imap_open( "{" . $mailserver . ":" . $port . "}INBOX", $user, $pass ))
{
echo "Connected\n";
} else { exit ("Can't connect: " . imap_last_error() ."\n"); echo "FAIL!\n"; };
if ($hdr = imap_check($mbox)) {
$msgCount = $hdr->Nmsgs;
echo "Ci sono ".$msgCount." mail";
} else {
echo "Failed to get mail";
}
If I do
$overview=imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"1:$msgCount",0);
the script load to an infinity time.
The imap_search UNSEEN solution is not good because pop3 don't use this flag.
So how can I do??????
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

There is two way you can follow:
1. Looping through the messages
$count = imap_num_msg($connection);
for($msgno = 1; $msgno <= $count; $msgno++) {
$headers = imap_headerinfo($connection, $msgno);
if($headers->Unseen == 'U') {
... do something ...
}
}
2. Using imap_search
There's a flag called UNSEEN which you can use to search for the unread emails. You would call the imap_search function with the UNSEEN flag like so:
$result = imap_search($connection, 'UNSEEN');
If you need to combine this with more search flags, for example searching for messages from me#example.com, you could do this:
$result = imap_search($connection, 'UNSEEN FROM "me#example.com"');
For a complete list of the available flags, refer to the criteria section of the imap_search manual page on the PHP website (www.php.net/imap_search)
Source: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-imap-unread-messages/

Answer 2

This was a tough one on Google: php imap unread
The first result:
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-imap-unread-messages/
There's a flag called UNSEEN which you can use to search for the unread emails. You would call the imap_search function with the UNSEEN flag like so:
view sourceprint?
$result = imap_search($connection, 'UNSEEN');
If you need to combine this with more search flags, for example searching for messages from me#example.com, you could do this:
view sourceprint?
$result = imap_search($connection, 'UNSEEN FROM "me#example.com"');
For a complete list of the available flags, refer to the criteria section of the imap_search manual page on the PHP website (www.php.net/imap_search)
Edit I had read this originally as IMAP. #fail.
Google: php pop3 unread
2nd link:
function CountUnreadMails($host, $login, $passwd) {
$mbox = imap_open("{{$host}/pop3:110}", $login, $passwd);
$count = 0;
if (!$mbox) {
echo "Error";
} else {
$headers = imap_headers($mbox);
foreach ($headers as $mail) {
$flags = substr($mail, 0, 4);
$isunr = (strpos($flags, "U") !== false);
if ($isunr)
$count++;
}
}
imap_close($mbox);
return $count;
}