Hi! In this article I want to describe my POP3 client for PHP. Originally it was created for integration test, when backend sends email and I need to check it in the inbox. Later this client was improved and now it is quite suitable for enterprize purposes.
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Installation
Just type
composer require mezon/pop3-client
Usage
Firts of all you need to connect
$client = new \Mezon\Pop3\Client('ssl://your-email-server', 'login', 'password');
Or in this way:
$client = new \Mezon\Pop3\Client();
// and somewere further
$client->connect('ssl://your-email-server', 'login', 'password');
And then you can fetch necessary information from server. Such as:
client->getCount(); // getting count of emails on the server
Or get headers of the message by it's id, get message's subject or even delete it:
for($i=0; $i<$client->getCount(); $i++) {
$headers = $client->getMessageHeaders($i);
$subject = $client->getMessageSubject($i);
$client->deleteMessage($i);
}
And after all things done you should close connection:
$client->quit();
Utility functions
You can also use more high level functions.
Such as deleting email by it's subject:
$client->deleteMessagesWithSubject('Re: some subject');
Or check if the email with the specified subject exists:
$client->messageWithSubjectExists('Re: some subject');// true or false will be returned
Or parse header wich were fetched by the getMessageHeaders(int $i): string and fetch Message-ID field:
$messageId = \Mezon\Pop3\Client::getMessageId($headers);
Learn more
More information can be found here:
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