imap's Introduction

IMAP Library for PHP

This IMAP Library for PHP provides an intuitive and easy-to-use interface to interact with POP3, IMAP and NNTP mail servers. It allows for operations such as connecting to mailboxes, fetching messages, handling message parts, and managing email content.

Connect to IMAP servers with ease
Fetch and manage email messages
Handle different parts of an email such as attachments and text
Decode email content and headers
Supports message deletion and structure analysis

Installation

To install the library, you can use Composer. Run the following command in your project directory:

composer require dg/imap

It requires PHP version 8.1 with extension imap.

Connecting to a Mailbox

To connect to an IMAP mailbox, create an instance of the Mailbox class.

use DG\Imap\Mailbox;

$mailbox = new Mailbox(
	'{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}',
	'[email protected]',
	'your_password',
);

$mailbox->connect();

Fetching Messages

Fetch all messages from the mailbox:

$messages = $mailbox->getMessages();
foreach ($messages as $message) {
	echo $message->getSubject() . "\n";
}

Handling Message Parts

To handle different parts of a message, such as attachments:

foreach ($messages as $message) {
	$parts = $message->getParts();
	foreach ($parts as $part) {
		// Process each part
	}
}

Certainly, here's the additional information regarding error handling through exceptions:

Error Handling

In case of any issue, such as a failure to connect to the IMAP server, fetch messages, or process message parts, the library will throw an DG\Imap\Exception:

try {
    $mailbox->connect();
    $messages = $mailbox->getMessages();
    // ... additional operations
} catch (DG\Imap\Exception $e) {
    echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}