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Class: POP3 e-mail client

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Name: POP3 e-mail client
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Base name: pop3class
Description: Access to e-mail mailboxes using the POP3 protocol
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Version: -
PHP version: 3
License: BSD License
All time users: 42049 users
All time rank: 5
Week users: 51 users
Week rank: 33
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Author: Manuel Lemos <e-mail contact>
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Country: Portugal Portugal - PHP jobs in Portugal
Age: 43
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Week rank: 31 in Portugal Portugal


  Detailed description  
Class that implements the access to mail boxes using the POP3 protocol.

It features:

- Support secure connections using TLS
- Provides a stream wrapper class to access messages like files using fopen('pop3://user:pass@localhost/1', 'r');
- POP3 server access using normal and apop login methods
- Authentication mechanisms implemented by SASL client class like: PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, NTLM (Windows or Linux/Unix via Samba), etc..
- Determining mailbox statistics (mail box size in bytes and the number of stored messages)
- Listing of individual message sizes and identifier numbers
- Retrieving messages in data blocks of limited size to not exceed the available memory
- Retrieving messages all at once separating the headers from the body and limiting the number of message lines that may be retrieved at once
- Marking messages to be deleted
- Resetting the list of messages to be deleted
- Issuing of protocol NOOP command to avoid connection shutdown while in idle state

 

  Groups  
Group folder image Email Email sending and receiving View top rated classes
Group folder image Networking Networking protocols, clients and servers View top rated classes
Group folder image Stream wrappers Access resources like regular files View top rated classes

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  Files folder image Screenshots  
Output of the example script accessing a POP3 mailbox
File Role Description
Accessible without login Image file pop3.gif Screen Output of the example script accessing a POP3 mailbox


  Freshmeat project  
POP3 e-mail client
Project record: pop3class
Popularity score: 129.15
Vitality score: 5.93

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  Packages needed by this class  
Class Dependency Why it is needed
Simple Authentication and Security Layer
Conditional
 When the POP3 server requires authentication the SASL package provides support for implementing authentication mechanisms like: PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, NTLM (Windows or Linux/Unix with Samba).
MIME E-mail message parser
Conditional
 Only needed to run the example that parses and decodes messages

  Packages that need this class  
Class Dependency Why it is needed
pop3ml
Required
 accessing and retrieving e-mail messages

  Trackback links  
Link Description
End-to-End Email Monitoring With PHP Summary: A PHP class exists to manipulate POP3 servers...
Get Name from Email Address Check out this simple and easy function for extracting the name from an email address...
Getting and Parsing E-mail with PHP Here’s my Problem: My website sends text files to a partner’s site via FTP...
Pop3 Destegiyle Mail Gönderme -
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  Applications that use this class  
Link Description
IRM IRM is a helpdesk and inventory application. It uses this class to pick mail up from a POP3 server and enter work requests directly into the job tracking system.
SaltOS CRM ERP Used in SaltOS e-mail client to import emails using a simple, safe and efficient method.
UMPL for Xmailserver E-mail system management system that uses this class for fetching messages from a POP 3 server because it is complete and ready to use and it helped to speedup the development of this application.
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  Files folder image Files  
File Role Description
Plain text file browse_mailbox.php Example Example of browsing and display messages of a mailbox using the pop3:// stream handler on an already opened POP3 connection
Plain text file LICENSE Lic. BSD License
Accessible without login Plain text file parse_message.php Example Example script to demonstrate how to open messages in a POP3 mailbox like files, and parse them with the MIME parser class
Plain text file pop3.php Class POP3 class file
Plain text file test_pop3.php Example POP3 class test page

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