imap_status

Description

This function returns an object containing status information. Valid flags are:

• SA_MESSAGES - set status->messages to the number of messages in the mailbox

• SA_RECENT - set status->recent to the number of recent messages in the mailbox

• SA_UNSEEN - set status->unseen to the number of unseen (new) messages in the mailbox

• SA_UIDNEXT - set status->uidnext to the next uid to be used in the mailbox

• SA_UIDVALIDITY - set status->uidvalidity to a constant that changes when uids for the mailbox may no longer be valid

• SA_ALL - set all of the above

status->flags is also set, which contains a bitmask which can be checked against any of the above constants.

Example 1. imap_status() example $mbox = imap_open("{your.imap.host}","username","password",OP_HALFOPEN) || die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error()); $status = imap_status($mbox,"{your.imap.host}INBOX",SA_ALL); if($status) { print("Messages: ". $status->messages )."<br>\n"; print("Recent: ". $status->recent )."<br>\n"; print("Unseen: ". $status->unseen )."<br>\n"; print("UIDnext: ". $status->uidnext )."<br>\n"; print("UIDvalidity:". $status->uidvalidity)."<br>\n"; } else print "imap_status failed: ".imap_lasterror()."\n"; imap_close($mbox);