PHP: Download incoming email from POP3 or IMAP, parse it, and mark it as read/delete on server

Question

I\'m trying to add incoming email to my web application. It\'s built on CodeIgniter and PHP, and as far as I can tell I haven\'t found any CI libraries to do this.

What

Answer 1

http://ca.php.net/imap

$mb = imap_open("{host:port/imap}","username", "password" );

$messageCount = imap_num_msg($mb);
for( $MID = 1; $MID <= $messageCount; $MID++ )
{
   $EmailHeaders = imap_headerinfo( $mb, $MID );
   $Body = imap_fetchbody( $mb, $MID, 1 );
   doSomething( $EmailHeaders, $Body );
}