I am retriving my mails using php imap function.
I am retriving all messages from server and i need to know how to detect messages which are spam in my received mails.
Question: How to Detect spam in emails received using imap php
Usually that is the job of your mail server admin, if you are him you will need to use a 3rd party software like SpamAssassin. The choise is up to you and your specific implementation of a mail server.
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I am developing a lightweight Gmail client for mobile phones, accessing Gmail by IMAP. I want to send a draft from the Drafts folder, but it has some attachments and I cannot download all of them to send it by SMTP.
Moving/copying it to "Sent Mail" does not send it, just moves it to that folder.
How can I send a Draft directly without fetching all the content and attachments from the client? Is there any IMAP command to do it?
IMAP is a mailbox protocol. It does not (natively) support sending mail, only accessing it. In order to send mail you must use SMTP. Its possible that there is an IMAP extension for sending mail, and its possible that Google Mail supports that extension, but I doubt it. Hence, if you want to send an email with attachments, you must actually have the full content of the message available to you to send.
IMAP was designed to receive email messages, not to send it. There is no IMAP command for sending email AFAIK. There is, however, at least one IMAP server which supports a special 'Outbox' folder. When you place the message into this folder it will be sent automatically.
Check Courier-IMAP documentation on Sending mail via an IMAP connection. Note, that this is a non standard method and I'm not aware of any other server which supports this.
There RFC 4468 which extends SMTP so it can fetch the mail content from the IMAP server, but I don't know about any working and widely used implementation.
Talking about gmail: sticking with SMTP is probably the safest way to go.
By the way, now that any modern mail client (including the webbased ones) supports a Sent folder, you typicaly have to use both SMTP and IMAP to send a single mail. And there's a race condition between sending the e-mail over SMTP and successfully saving the e-mail to the IMAP Sent folder. Using IMAP for sending e-mail is a way to avoid this race condition.
Sending email is a special feature of some imap servers. Its nothing in the imap protocol. You just copy your email into a special imap directory on the server and it sends them. I doubt that gmail supports this.
I sent an email to my own email address using IMAP using Python 3 to a gmail account. What is does is append a message to a mailbox. You need to utilize a handful of Python's native libraries. Also study this documentation for imaplib, this code is featured in the section Uploading Messages: To add a new message to a mailbox, construct a Message instance and pass it to the append() method, along with the timestamp for the message.
Then check your gmail inbox and you'll see the new message.
import imaplib
import time
import email.message
import imaplib_connect
new_message = email.message.Message()
new_message.set_unixfrom('name')
new_message['Subject'] = 'Test'
new_message['From'] = 'name#gmail.com'
new_message['To'] = 'name#gmail.com'
new_message.set_payload('This is an example message body.\n')
print(new_message)
with imaplib_connect.open_connection() as c:
c.append('INBOX', '',
imaplib.Time2Internaldate(time.time()),
str(new_message).encode('utf-8'))
# Show the headers for all messages in the mailbox
c.select('INBOX')
typ, [msg_ids] = c.search(None, 'ALL')
for num in msg_ids.split():
typ, msg_data = c.fetch(num, '(BODY.PEEK[HEADER])')
for response_part in msg_data:
if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
print('\n{}:'.format(num))
print(response_part[1])
I know you can send emails with PHP but, can you receive emails through PHP?
You can pipe incoming mails into a PHP script so you can process it directly. Evolt has an article on how to setup something like that. This can be useful if you want to activate scripts programmatically by sending Emails to it (like responses to a newsletter mail that unsubscribes the user).
If you just want to read mails using PHP, PHP has native functions to talk to IMAP, NNTP and POP mailboxes.
Take a look at http://cloudmailin.com it takes away a lot of the hassle involved with receiving the email and will send it directly to your app via an HTTP Post. We have quite a few php users using the system to receive email.
You could write a mail server in PHP that binds to a port and listens for incoming email.
But PHP is not the language I would recommend for tasks like this, and it would also be a hugely complex undertaking.
You can hook into an existing mail server as callback script, or periodically query a mail server via POP or IMAP. The latter option is the most common: run a PHP script that processes an email account via a cron task in intervals. See http://php.net/imap.
There is a great library that is based on IMAP extension: http://code.google.com/p/php-imap
Only a mail server can receive e-mails. You could read mail box formats (such as mbox or Maildir) to read e-mail using PHP.
PHP scripts functioning as IMAP/POP3 servers can receive e-mail sent to them.
I would like to have a server that is able to receive emails. Then I want to use PHP to program the way the emails are shown to the users. Can I do it purely with PHP? I mean, it is not a problem to send emails from PHP but I do not know if I can receive emails by PHP? (In a way PHP receives POST requests).
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As a response to the first answer, I would like to specify that it looks like I need an SMTP server. I want to be able to communicate with the SMTP server in a programmatic way. For example, I want to have a possibility to "tell" to the SMTP server to create a new e-mail address. I also need to know where incoming emails stored and in what format. For example, how I can extract the "sender", "cc", "bcc" from the file corresponding to the received mail.
would like to have a sever that is able to receive e-mails.
If you are writing it from scratch then you'll need the specification for SMTP. I would advise very strongly against this. SMTP servers are hard to write, and there are several really good open source solutions out there.
My understanding of PHP is that it does very poorly when it comes to multithreading, so it probably isn't a good solution for this problem.
Than I want to use PHP to program the way the mails are shown to the users
Servers that receive mails do not typically show them to users. They usually store them in a standard way (such as Maildir or mbox) which other software (such as a local email client or an IMAP server) accesses.
The job of showing email to a user is belongs to email clients. Web based PHP web mail software includes SquirrelMail and RoundCube. AFAIK they both act as IMAP clients. See the IMAP specification.
As a response to the first answer, I would like to specify that it looks like I need a SMTP servers. I want to be able to communicate with the SMTP server in a programmatic way. For example, I want to have a possibility to "tell" to the SMTP server to create a new e-mail address.
Pick an SMTP server that runs on your OS. Read the instructions to find out how to configure delivery and accepted addresses. It usually comes down to manipulating text files.
I also need to know where incoming mails stored and in what format. For example, how I can extract the "sender", "cc", "bcc" from the file corresponding to the received mail.
Again. See the manual for the mailserver. Most will give you options about where to store the data and in what format.
Then you just need to decide if you are going to get PHP to dig into those directly, or use an IMAP server in between.
No, that is not easily possible. PHP is made for (stateless) http protocol, while a mail is sent in a conversation that is built up from various requests and responses.
It is possible to parse and process mails using PHP, but I would recommend installing a mailbox that you can read from PHP using POP3. Then, your PHP application can show and process mails from that mailbox.
I am developing a simple webmail client for IMAP-based email services using PHP's IMAP library, and I was wondering if there was any way to specify the SMTP server to use when sending an outgoing message, so that the message will be placed in the user's Sent mailbox when they are logged into their IMAP account. I saw that their is an imap_mail() function however it looks from the docs like it is just basically an alias for the normal mail() function, or am I wrong in assumming that?
Why don't you use a full featured class for this function, like PHPMailer?
Saving a copy to the Sent Mail folder is a function of IMAP, and is completely unrelated to queuing the message for delivery via SMTP. I.e., your code will have to do both operations separately -- one does not imply the other.
I have noticed that Gmail adds a copy to the sent folder on its own. Is this common behavior for the big web-mail providers?
We have a client that can't receive emails from a dedicated server using PHP mail because when their SPAM server does an MX record lookup for the IP it can't find one (so it bounces the email).
This is because the mail exchange is on a different server completely. The client said that they have an IP address that bypasses the SPAM blocker.
So I'm wondering if PHP mail can send an email to a specific IP?
Does your server not qualify as a mail sender by their spam filter? Because I'm guessing that they can receive mail from other people.
So I think you need to look at the setup of your server so it complies with their qualifications (like a reversible name for example, or whatever other rules they require from an email sender)
Because with PHP (and other languages) you just send the email, there are tools that send an email through another server that is qualified to send emails, but usually you use the server itself.
For example, you can use the Zend Mail library to send through another SMTP server.
The answer is yes. However, how the mail() call in PHP actually sends the mail is totally dependent on how your system is set up, so any problems you're having sending mail won't be resolved in your PHP code, they'll be in your mail set up.
Generally, you should be able to address a piece of email to "user#192.168.1.1" and have it arrive successfully.
There's a good article about some of your mailer settings here.