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POP3 PHP Client

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Hi! In this article I want to describe my POP3 client for PHP. Originally it was created for integration test, when backend sends email and I need to check it in the inbox. Later this client was improved and now it is quite suitable for enterprize purposes.
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Installation

Just type

composer require mezon/pop3-client
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Usage

Firts of all you need to connect

$client = new \Mezon\Pop3\Client('ssl://your-email-server', 'login', 'password');
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Or in this way:

$client = new \Mezon\Pop3\Client(); // and somewere further $client->connect('ssl://your-email-server', 'login', 'password');
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And then you can fetch necessary information from server. Such as:

client->getCount(); // getting count of emails on the server
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Or get headers of the message by it's id, get message's subject or even delete it:

for($i=0; $i<$client->getCount(); $i++) { $headers = $client->getMessageHeaders($i); $subject = $client->getMessageSubject($i); $client->deleteMessage($i); }
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And after all things done you should close connection:

$client->quit();
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Utility functions

You can also use more high level functions.

Such as deleting email by it's subject:

$client->deleteMessagesWithSubject('Re: some subject');
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Or check if the email with the specified subject exists:

$client->messageWithSubjectExists('Re: some subject');// true or false will be returned
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Or parse header wich were fetched by the getMessageHeaders(int $i): string and fetch Message-ID field:

$messageId = \Mezon\Pop3\Client::getMessageId($headers);
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Learn more

More information can be found here:

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