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($socketPOP);
fputs($socketPOP, "USER myName\n");
fgets($socketPOP);
fputs($socketPOP, "PASS myPassword\n");
fgets($socketPOP);

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

Now I read the lines with
$zeile = fgets($socketPOP);
and get from it the current numbers and the content lengths.
Then I send for every mail:

fputs($socketPOP, "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]

Georg Gerber wrote:

Then I send for every mail:

fputs($socketPOP, "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?

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]

Hello,

On 02/20/2004 09:51 AM, Georg Gerber wrote:

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

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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