POP3 Check

well i don't want any database code plus that uses the IMAP extention.  just looking for more simple code that does nothing but checks the POP3 account...nothing extra.

You might want to try this class autoresponse.class.php, I found it at http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/7901.html, it will require a tiny bit of customization but not much.

well i had looked at this one:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2.html

but it doesn't seem to work with any html emails or at least i've not gotten it to return any emails with html.

Here's a sample of what I used in the responseContentSource

$respond->responseContentSource="Hello,<br /><br />Thank you for your e-mail. We have just activated your account. Please login with the details you provided during registration.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />";
$respond->send('custom','html',true);

It does appear to for me. Just make sure that you use the second line as well.

mark_dh:  does this pertain to the first link you posted?  i have no clue as to how to use that script.

linuxrox, yes it does. This is a sample file that can be used to reply to pop3 messages. If all you want to do is check a pop3 connection then this may not be the script your are looking for

include("autoresponse.class.php");
$respond=new autoresponse('your email address','the password for said email address','the from name','pop server');
$respond->connect();
$respond->responseContentSource="some basic html<br />content";
$respond->send('custom','html',true);
$respond->close_mailbox();

Include all this code in some file and stick it in the same directory as autoresponse.class.php, run the file and it should check a pop3 account and reply with the message in responseContentSource.

Hope this helps.

hmm, yea what i simply need is to retrieve the body of each message...nothing more.

netmunky:  
some of the emails will be multi-part probably, html and text emails. some maybe just html, some maybe just text.  i'm only concerned about the text emails.  not sure if this would be classified as MIME but it sounds like it is.  my only other option is to write a windows program to check the emails and deal with them that way which i'd rather not do.

netmunky:
It looks like the net-pop3 is the way to go but are there examples of scripts using this to retrieve messages and loop through them?  i have no experience using this

http://www.melonfire.com/community/columns/trog/print.php?id=275 (about 3/4 way down) has an example of logging into a server and getting the headers of each message. changing the function called (or adding another call) to getBody shouldn't be too much of a change

i used this example:
<?php
// include class
include("Net/POP3.php");
// initialize object
$pop3 = new Net_POP3();
// attempt connection to server
if (!$pop3->connect("example.com", 110)) {
die("Error in connection");
}
// attempt login
$ret = $pop3->login("john", "doe");
if (is_a($ret, 'PEAR_Error')) {
die("Error in authentication: " . $ret->getMessage());
}
// print number of messages found
echo $pop3->numMsg() . " message(s) in mailbox\n";
// print message headers
if ($pop3->numMsg() > 0) {
for ($x=1; $x<=$pop3->numMsg(); $x++) {
$hdrs = $pop3->getParsedHeaders($x);
echo $hdrs['From'] . "\n" . $hdrs['Subject'] . "\n\n";
}
}
// disconnect from server
$pop3->disconnect();
?>

and i keep getting authentication failures but the username and password i set are indeed correct..strange.

you changed the host in the connect() line as well, right?

oh for certain..yes.
i'm even checking the server logs that shows the authentication failure!!  but the user and pass is simply test and test.
i don't understand this.

and i just verified the user/pass is correct using the same settings in outlook express...checks the account just fine...so something is up.

Error in authentication: Unknown Response (+)


that is the error i get....sucks.

what pop3 daemon are you using?
Net_POP3 is expecting 1 of 3 responses: "+OK", "-ERR", or "+ " (with a space)
apparently it is getting "+" without the space

i'm not intimately familiar with the pop3 RFC, so i don't know if this is a non-compliant server, or if Net_POP3 just needs a little tweaking.
to work around this, locate the Net/POP3.php file (located in the PEAR include directory),  find the bit that looks like this:
    function _checkResponse($response)
    {
        if (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 3) == '+OK') {
            return true;
        }else{
            if (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 4) == '-ERR') {
                return $this->_raiseError($response);
            }else{
                if (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 2) == '+ ') {
                    return true;
                }
            }
   
        }
        return $this->_raiseError("Unknown Response ($response)");
    }

and change it to:
    function _checkResponse($response)
    {
        if (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 3) == '+OK') {
            return true;
        } elseif (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 4) == '-ERR') {
            return $this->_raiseError($response);
        } elseif (@substr(strtoupper($response), 0, 2) == '+ ') {
            return true;
        } elseif (@strlen($response) == 1 && $response == '+' ) {
            return true;
        }
   
        return $this->_raiseError("Unknown Response ($response)");
    }

kerio mail server is the one that will not work.
that's a good idea though...i'll first test it against my linux postfix server and see if that works.

dude!  that is the issue.....will NOT work with Kerio mailserver but worked with postfix!!!
that sucks though, someone should bring that to someones attention!

you could do a bug report at http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=Net_POP3&status=OpenFeedback&bug_type=Bugs

i changed the function to what you listed there and it takes a few seconds and reports:
"message(s) in mailbox "
even when there are messages in the inbox.  this is not good.  i'll try and do a bug report.

I'm going to use this and use a pop3 account on postfix but is there some sample code ANYWHERE ??
i need to know how to loop through each message and get the body of each message.....it's crazy there aren't readily available examples for this sort of thing.

assuming you're already logged in, a modified of the above linked sample:


if ($pop3->numMsg() > 0) {
    for ($x=1; $x<=$pop3->numMsg(); $x++) {
        $hdrs = $pop3->getParsedHeaders($x);
        $body = $pop3->getBody($x);
        $pop3->deleteMsg($x);
        echo $hdrs['From'] . "\n" . $hdrs['Subject'] . "\n\n" . $body ."\n\n-------------------\n\n";
    }
}
$pop3->disconnect(); # if you don't call this, the messages aren't deleted