README

A PHP 5.5+ library to read and process e-mails over IMAP.

Installation

Make sure the PHP IMAP extension is installed. For instance on Debian:

The recommended way to install the IMAP library is through Composer:

$ composer require hrodrigues1984/imap

This command requires you to have Composer installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation.

Usage

Connect and Authenticate

use Ddeboer\Imap\Server;

$server = new Server('imap.mail.com');

// $connection is instance of \Ddeboer\Imap\Connection
$connection = $server->authenticate('my_username', 'my_password');

Options

You can specify port, flags and parameters to the server:

$server = new Server(
    $hostname, // required
    $port,     // defaults to 993
    $flags,    // defaults to '/imap/ssl/validate-cert'
    $parameters
);

Mailboxes

Retrieve mailboxes (also known as mail folders) from the mail server and iterate over them:

$mailboxes = $connection->getMailboxes();

foreach ($mailboxes as $mailbox) {
    // $mailbox is instance of \Ddeboer\Imap\Mailbox
    printf('Mailbox %s has %s messages', $mailbox->getName(), $mailbox->count());
}

Or retrieve a specific mailbox:

$mailbox = $connection->getMailbox('Inbox');

Delete a mailbox:

$mailbox->delete();

Messages

Retrieve messages (e-mails) from a mailbox and iterate over them:

$messages = $mailbox->getMessages();

foreach ($messages as $message) {
    // $message is instance of \Ddeboer\Imap\Message
}

Searching for Messages

use Ddeboer\Imap\SearchExpression;
use Ddeboer\Imap\Search\Email\To;
use Ddeboer\Imap\Search\Text\Body;

$search = new SearchExpression();
$search->addCondition(new To('me@here.com'))
    ->addCondition(new Body('contents'))
;

$messages = $mailbox->getMessages($search);

Message Properties and Operations

Get message number and unique message id in the form <...>:

$message->getNumber();
$message->getId();

Get other message properties:

$message->getSubject();
$message->getFrom();
$message->getTo();
$message->getDate();
$message->isAnswered();
$message->isDeleted();
$message->isDraft();
$message->isSeen();

Get message headers as a \Ddeboer\Imap\Message\Headers object:

$message->getHeaders();

Get message body as HTML or plain text:

$message->getBodyHtml();
$message->getBodyText();

Reading the message body marks the message as seen. If you want to keep the message unseen:

$message->keepUnseen()->getBodyHtml();

Move a message to another mailbox:

$mailbox = $connection->getMailbox('another-mailbox');
$message->move($mailbox);

Deleting messages:

$mailbox->getMessage(1)->delete();
$mailbox->getMessage(2)->delete();
$mailbox->expunge();

Message Attachments

Get message attachments (both inline and attached) and iterate over them:

$attachments = $message->getAttachments();

foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
    // $attachment is instance of \Ddeboer\Imap\Message\Attachment
}

Download a message attachment to a local file:

// getDecodedContent() decodes the attachment’s contents automatically:
file_put_contents(
    '/my/local/dir/' . $attachment->getFilename(),
    $attachment->getDecodedContent()
);

Running the Tests

If you have your own IMAP (test) account, you can run the tests locally by providing your IMAP (e.g., Email Provider) credentials:

$ composer install --dev
$ EMAIL_USERNAME="your_username" EMAIL_PASSWORD="your_password" EMAIL_SERVER="imap.mail.com" vendor/bin/phpunit

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