I wrote the following code to read mails from my mailbox to program. when i give "ALL" in imap_search i get all the mails. but when i give "SEEN" or "UNSEEN" I always get zero results. I used the php-imap library to fetch mails from the inbox of my email. I get the results correctly when i use "ALL" in the function imap_search but i zero results when i replace ALL with SEEN or UNSEEN.
MY code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href=
"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<script>
function getEmails() {
document.getElementById('dataDivID')
.style.display = "block";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>List Emails from inbox of [email protected] using PHP and IMAP</h2>
<div id="btnContainer">
<button class="btn active" onclick="getEmails()">
<i class="fa fa-bars"></i>Click to get mails
</button>
</div>
<br>
<div id="dataDivID" class="form-container" style="display:none;">
<?php
$host = '{mail.cdit.org:993/ssl}INBOX';
/* Your gmail credentials */
$user = '[email protected]';
$password = 'MYPASSWORD';
/* Establish a IMAP connection */
$conn = imap_open($host, $user, $password)
or die('unable to connect mail.cdit.org: ' . imap_last_error());
/* Search emails from gmail inbox*/
$mails = imap_search($conn, 'UNSEEN');
/* loop through each email id mails are available. */
if ($mails) {
/* Mail output variable starts*/
$mailOutput = '';
$mailOutput.= '<table><tr><th>Subject </th><th> From </th>
<th> Date Time </th> <th> Content </th></tr>';
/* rsort is used to display the latest emails on top */
rsort($mails);
/* For each email */
foreach ($mails as $email_number) {
/* Retrieve specific email information*/
$headers = imap_fetch_overview($conn, $email_number, 0);
//print_r($headers);echo "<br/>";
$header = imap_headerinfo($conn, $email_number);
//print_r($header);
$from = $header->from;
foreach ($from as $id => $object)
{
$fromname = $object->personal;
$fromaddress = $object->mailbox . "@" . $object->host;
}
/* Returns a particular section of the body*/
//$message = imap_fetchbody($conn, $email_number, '1');
/* Check the content type */
$contentType = $headers[0]->type;
/* Fetch the appropriate section based on content type
$message = ($contentType === 0) ? imap_fetchbody($conn, $email_number, '1') :
imap_fetchbody($conn, $email_number, '1.2');*/
/* Get the email structure */
/* Retrieve the email structure */
$structure = imap_fetchstructure($conn, $email_number);
/* Check if the email has HTML content */
$htmlMessage = '';$message='';
if (isset($structure->parts) && is_array($structure->parts)) {
foreach ($structure->parts as $part) {
if ($part->subtype === 'HTML') {
$htmlMessage = getDecodedContent($conn, $email_number, $part);
break;
}
}
}
/* If HTML content is empty or unavailable, fetch the plain text version */
if (empty($htmlMessage)) {
$message = getDecodedContent($conn, $email_number, $structure);
} else {
$message = $htmlMessage;
}
/*$subMessage = substr($message, 0, 150);
$finalMessage = trim(quoted_printable_decode($subMessage));*/
$finalMessage = getActualContent($message);
$mailOutput.= '<div class="row">';
/* Gmail MAILS header information */
$mailOutput.= '<td><span class="columnClass">' .
$headers[0]->subject . '</span></td> ';
$mailOutput.= '<td><span class="columnClass">' .
$fromaddress . '</span></td>';
$mailOutput.= '<td><span class="columnClass">' .
$headers[0]->date . '</span></td>';
$mailOutput.= '</div>';
/* Mail body is returned */
$mailOutput.= '<td><span class="column">' .
$finalMessage . '</span></td></tr></div>';
}// End foreach
$mailOutput.= '</table>';
echo $mailOutput;
}//endif
/* imap connection is closed */
imap_close($conn);
/**
* Get the decoded content from a specific part of the email.
*
* @param resource $conn The IMAP connection resource.
* @param int $email_number The email number.
* @param object $part The specific part of the email structure.
* @return string The decoded content.
*/
function getDecodedContent($conn, $email_number, $part) {
$encoding = $part->encoding;
$content = '';
if ($part->type === 0) {
$content = imap_fetchbody($conn, $email_number, $part->partNumber, FT_PEEK);
} elseif ($part->type === 1 || $part->type === 2 || $part->type === 3) {
$content = imap_fetchbody($conn, $email_number, $part->partNumber);
}
switch ($encoding) {
case 1: // BASE64
$content = base64_decode($content);
break;
case 2: // QUOTED-PRINTABLE
$content = quoted_printable_decode($content);
break;
case 3: // 8BIT
case 4: // 7BIT
case 5: // BINARY
default:
break;
}
return $content;
}
function getActualContent($content)
{
$startMarker = 'base64';
$endMarker = '--b1';
$startPos = strpos($content, $startMarker);
if ($startPos !== false) {
$startPos = strpos($content, PHP_EOL, $startPos) + strlen(PHP_EOL);
$endPos = strpos($content, $endMarker, $startPos);
if ($endPos !== false) {
$substring = substr($content, $startPos, $endPos - $startPos);
//echo $substring;
}
}
return base64_decode($substring);
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Please give me the correct code to get results of read/unread mails.
I added a check if ($headers[0]->seen == 0) { before fetching mail details
In this method i first get all the results using ALL in imap_search. Then i filter out the results using the seen parameter of array returned by imap_fetch_overview
The corrected code:
<?php
// Connect to the mail server
$mailbox = imap_open('{your_email_server:993/imap/ssl}', 'your_username', 'your_password');
if (!$mailbox) {
echo 'Failed to connect to the mail server.';
exit;
}
// Fetch all emails
$emailIds = imap_search($mailbox, 'ALL');
if ($emailIds === false) {
echo 'Failed to fetch the emails.';
exit;
}
// Iterate through each email
foreach ($emailIds as $emailId) {
// Fetch the email overview
$overview = imap_fetch_overview($mailbox, $emailId, 0);
// Check if the email is unseen
if ($overview[0]->seen == 0) {
// Email is unseen, process it
// Mark the email as read manually
imap_setflag_full($mailbox, $emailId, '\\Seen');
// Process the email content
$message = imap_fetchbody($mailbox, $emailId, 1.2); // Assuming the content is in MIME format
// Process the content as needed
// ...
// Print the content
echo $message;
}
}
// Close the mailbox
imap_close($mailbox);
?>