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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

imap_status

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imap_status — Returns status information on a mailbox

Description

object imap_status ( resource $imap_stream , string $mailbox , int $options )

Gets status information about the given mailbox .

Parameters

imap_stream

An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

mailbox

The mailbox name, see imap_open() for more information

options

Valid flags are:

  • SA_MESSAGES - set status->messages to the number of messages in the mailbox
  • SA_RECENT - set status->recent to the number of recent messages in the mailbox
  • SA_UNSEEN - set status->unseen to the number of unseen (new) messages in the mailbox
  • SA_UIDNEXT - set status->uidnext to the next uid to be used in the mailbox
  • SA_UIDVALIDITY - set status->uidvalidity to a constant that changes when uids for the mailbox may no longer be valid
  • SA_ALL - set all of the above

Return Values

This function returns an object containing status information. The object has the following properties: messages, recent, unseen, uidnext, and uidvalidity.

flags is also set, which contains a bitmask which can be checked against any of the above constants.

Examples

Example #1 imap_status() example

<?php
$mbox
= imap_open("{imap.example.com}", "username", "password", OP_HALFOPEN)
     or die(
"can't connect: " . imap_last_error());

$status = imap_status($mbox, "{imap.example.org}INBOX", SA_ALL);
if (
$status) {
  echo
"Messages:  " . $status->messages    . "<br />\n";
  echo
"Recent:    " . $status->recent      . "<br />\n";
  echo
"Unseen:    " . $status->unseen      . "<br />\n";
  echo
"UIDnext:    " . $status->uidnext    . "<br />\n";
  echo
"UIDvalidity:" . $status->uidvalidity . "<br />\n";
} else {
  echo
"imap_status failed: " . imap_last_error() . "\n";
}

imap_close($mbox);
?>



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