Class: POP3 e-mail client

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

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).

Only needed to run the example that parses and decodes messages

Check out this simple and easy function for extracting the name from an email address...

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.

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.

Example of browsing and display messages of a mailbox using the pop3:// stream handler on an already opened POP3 connection

BSD License

Example script to demonstrate how to open messages in a POP3 mailbox like files, and parse them with the MIME parser class

POP3 class file

POP3 class test page