pop3 over sockets

[Georg Gerber]

Hello,

on a php page I want to display the content of a POP3 mailbox and to show
the following informations:

current number, content-length, sender, subject

I use the following code:


// open the socket
$socketPOP = fsockopen($pop, 110);
fgets($socketPO P);
fputs($socketPO P, "USER myName\n");
fgets($socketPO P);
fputs($socketPO P, "PASS myPassword\n");
fgets($socketPO P);

// load list
fputs($socketPO P, "LIST\n");



Now I read the lines with
$zeile = fgets($socketPO P);
and get from it the current numbers and the content lengths.


Then I send for every mail:

fputs($socketPO P, "RETR $currentNumber\ n");

and parse the returnd lines for the strings "From:" and "Subject:".

My problem is, that the whole mail is sended and I have to read ALL data
from the socket, before I can get the data from the next mail. If I have
lots of large mails, I create with this code very much traffic.
How can I avoid this unnecessary traffic?

Georg Gerber

[Pedro Graca]

Re: [OT] pop3 over sockets

Georg Gerber wrote:[color=blue]
> Then I send for every mail:
>
> fputs($socketPO P, "RETR $currentNumber\ n");
>
> and parse the returnd lines for the strings "From:" and "Subject:".
>
> My problem is, that the whole mail is sended and I have to read ALL data
> from the socket, before I can get the data from the next mail. If I have
> lots of large mails, I create with this code very much traffic.
> How can I avoid this unnecessary traffic?[/color]

You might want to review the POP3 protocol

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html

and use TOP instead of RETR
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--= my mail box only accepts =--
--= Content-Type: text/plain =--
--= Size below 10001 bytes =--

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: pop3 over sockets

Hello,

On 02/20/2004 09:51 AM, Georg Gerber wrote:[color=blue]
> on a php page I want to display the content of a POP3 mailbox and to show
> the following informations:
>
> current number, content-length, sender, subject[/color]

You may want to try this POP3 client class:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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