Building A PHP-Based Mail Client (part 3)

Maybe it's me, but I don't see where the source is changing from what I downloaded back in part one...

It's the same source - we've just offered a link in each part, in case you came in late

Oh, I see. Will you be making the final version of the code available?

This might sound stupid, and it probably does, but right at the start, when I try to login with my email address and password, I get an error "A connection could not be opened to the mail server. Please verify your account information and log in again."

I know my email and password exist, so what could I be doing wrong here?

When I try to run the scripts I get the error message

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /usr/local/home/jsawyer/www/mail/list.php on line 24

I get the same result when I try to run another IMAP tutorial from PHPBuilder.

My ISP has confirmed that PHP 4.0 is enabled. http://inshore.com/test.php

I am just getting started with PHP and any help would be appreciated.

I think that the problem might be that the IMAP extension isnt installed.

Try this out: Create a php file with the following code in it:
**echo phpinfo();**

Run it, and check if there is a section about IMAP there. If there isn't, thats probably the problem. If there is, then I dont know what could be wrong.

Hope that helps.

As the title goes, how do I use my (eg) Yahoo SMTP server without touching the php.ini file?

I have an experimental website residing on a free webhost which provides php and mysql as part of its services, but not the mail() function. (multimania.com, PHP4) You could now understand why I can't touch the php.ini file, huh?

I know that there are free form mails around, but my website is fully integrated/automated and needs its own form mail in PHP.

Thanks in advance!

for anyone interested,
i added a next/previous button to this script and an extra preferences page, so you can choose how many messages you can view per page.

i'm subscribed to a few mailing lists so i get tons of mail per day and thats where this mail script starts to generate very large and slow pages to load.

get it here, its a zip with 2 files:
http://www.devweb.nl/mailaddon/devshedmailaddon.zip

Hi,
I have installed the script on my webserver and it works well. However, sending an email with a plain text body and an attachment with Outlook express makes trouble.
The message header is displayed correctly and the attachment is also fine, but the plain text body of the email is gone.
It seems that this behavior is due to the strange usage of mime types in outlook. Any hints to fix this besides avoiding Outlook completely.
Frank

Hi
First of all thanks for great article.
I am using php 4.1.2 as shipped with redhat 7.3
The imap_open function in list.php needs small modification (added /tls/novalidate-cert) in order to work:

$inbox = @imap_open ("{". $SESSION_MAIL_HOST . "/pop3:110/tls/novalidate-cert}", $SESSION_USER_NAME, $SESSION_USER_PASS) or header("Location: error.php?ec=3");

How would you time out the session.

I copied and pasted the code snippets to handle uploaded file attachments and everything appeared to work fine. However when the attachaments were downloaded from the sent email they are not readable. Any Ideas?

Note: .txt files read ok, but everything else dosen't