IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

&reftitle.intro; These functions enable you to operate with the IMAP protocol, as well as the NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access methods. Be warned however, that some of IMAP functions will not work correctly with the POP protocol.

&reftitle.required; This extension requires the c-client library to be installed. Grab the latest version from &url.imap; and compile it. It's important that you do not copy the IMAP source files directly into the system include directory as there may be conflicts. Instead, create a new directory inside the system include directory, such as /usr/local/imap-2000b/ (location and name depend on your setup and IMAP version), and inside this new directory create additional directories named lib/ and include/. From the c-client directory from your IMAP source tree, copy all the *.h files into include/ and all the *.c files into lib/. Additionally when you compiled IMAP, a file named c-client.a was created. Also put this in the lib/ directory but rename it as libc-client.a. To build the c-client library with SSL or/and Kerberos support read the docs supplied with the package. In Mandrake Linux, the IMAP library (libc-client.a) is compiled without Kerberos support. A separate version with SSL (client-PHP4.a) is installed. The library must be recompiled in order to add Kerberos support.

&reference.imap.configure;

&reftitle.runtime; &no.config;

&reftitle.resources;

&reference.imap.constants;

&reftitle.seealso; 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.