Problem using PHP imap functions

Question

I'm trying to build an email message parser for our site. What I'm eventually going to do is iterate through the messages that have attachments and save the attachment if the message comes from a particular email address.

This is just the initial test, however, I am running into problems, see comments below.

  <?php
  echo "Loading..."."<br />\n";
  $mailuser="[email protected]";

  echo "User=$mailuser"."<br />\n";;
  $mailpass="mypassword";
  echo "Pass=$mailpass"."<br />\n";
  // had to use this because we have SSL on site and regular port 110 didn't work
  $mailhost="{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}";
  echo "Host=$mailhost"."<br />\n";

  $mailbox=imap_open($mailhost,$mailuser,$mailpass) or die("<br />\nFAILLED! ".imap_last_error());
  $check = imap_check($mailbox);
  // last message parsed will be stored in the file msgcounter.dat
  $firstmsg = file_get_contents('msgcounter.dat') + 1;
  $lastmsg  = $firstmsg+$check->Recent; // should be == last msg index + count of latest messages
  echo 'First:'.$firstmsg.' - Last:'.$lastmsg."<br>";
  $result   = imap_fetch_overview($mailbox,"$firstmsg:$lastmsg");
  print_r($result);
  foreach ($result as $overview) {
    echo "#{$overview->msgno} ({$overview->date}) - From: {$overview->from}
    {$overview->subject}\n";
  }
  // the following approach didn't work either, Kept getting warnings about
  // Bad message number 
  //
  // Some messages in the sequence HAVE been deleted.
  /*
  for ($index = $firstmsg-1; $index <= ($lastmsg); $index++ ) {
    if (strlen(trim(imap_fetchheader($mailbox, $index))) > 0) { 
      echo 'in message index loop:'.$index;
    }
  }
  */
  imap_close($mailbox);
echo "completed.". "<br />\n";;
?>

Answer 1

The problem was that I wasn't checking the imap mailbox in this line:

$mailhost="{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}";

This is the correct line to use:

$mailhost="{localhost/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}";