IMAP, POP3 and NNTP functionsIMAP
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These functions are not limited to the IMAP protocol,
despite their name. The underlying c-client library also supports
NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access
methods.
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This extension requires the c-client library to be installed.
Grab the latest version from &url.imap;
and compile it.
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To get these functions to work, you have to compile PHP with
.
Then copy c-client/c-client.a to
/usr/local/lib/libc-client.a or some other
directory on your link path and copy
c-client/c-client.h,
c-client/imap4r1.h,
c-client/rfc-882.h,
c-client/mail.h and
c-client/linkage.h
to /usr/local/include or some other directory in
your include path.
Depending how the c-client was configured, you might also need to add
and/or into the PHP
configure line.
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This document can't go into detail on all the topics touched by
the provided functions. Further information is provided by the
documentation of the c-client library source
(docs/internal.txt). and the following RFC
documents:
RFC2821: Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
RFC2822: Standard for
ARPA internet text messages.
RFC2060: Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Version 4rev1.
RFC1939: Post
Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3).
RFC977: Network News
Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
RFC2076: Common
Internet Message Headers.
RFC2045 , RFC2046 , RFC2047 , RFC2048 & RFC2049: Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).
A detailed overview is also available in the books
Programming Internet Email
by David Wood and Managing
IMAP by Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet.
Crashes and startup problems of PHP may be encountered
when loading this extension in conjunction with the recode extension.
See the recode extension for more
information.
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