imap_status

Description

This function returns an object containing status information. Valid flags are:

• SA_MESSAGES - set status->messages to the number of messages in the mailbox

• SA_RECENT - set status->recent to the number of recent messages in the mailbox

• SA_UNSEEN - set status->unseen to the number of unseen (new) messages in the mailbox

• SA_UIDNEXT - set status->uidnext to the next uid to be used in the mailbox

• SA_UIDVALIDITY - set status->uidvalidity to a constant that changes when uids for the mailbox may no longer be valid

• SA_ALL - set all of the above

status->flags is also set, which contains a bitmask which can be checked against any of the above constants.

Example 1. imap_status() example <?php $mbox = imap_open("{imap.example.org}", "username", "password", OP_HALFOPEN)       or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());   $status = imap_status($mbox, "{imap.example.org}INBOX", SA_ALL); if ($status) {   echo "Messages:   " . $status->messages    . "<br />\n";   echo "Recent:     " . $status->recent      . "<br />\n";   echo "Unseen:     " . $status->unseen      . "<br />\n";   echo "UIDnext:    " . $status->uidnext     . "<br />\n";   echo "UIDvalidity:" . $status->uidvalidity . "<br />\n";  } else {   echo "imap_status failed: " . imap_last_error() . "\n"; } imap_close($mbox); ?>