IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

&reftitle.intro; 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.

&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;

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&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.