Read IMAP Email Headers

Call FetchHeaders to download only the email headers.

Download Chilkat IMAP ActiveX

<?php

$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

//  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
$success = $imap->UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Connect('mail.chilkatsoft.com');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Login
$success = $imap->Login('****','****');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
$fetchUids = true;
//  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
// messageSet is a Chilkat.MessageSet
$messageSet = $imap->Search('ALL',$fetchUids);
if (is_null($messageSet)) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  When downloading headers, each email object contains
//  (obviously) the headers, but the body will be missing.
//  Also, attachments will not be included.  However, it is
//  possible to get information about the attachments
//  as well as the complete size of the email.

// bundle is a Chilkat.EmailBundle2
$bundle = $imap->FetchHeaders($messageSet);
if (is_null($bundle)) {

    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Loop over the email objects and display information
//  about each:

for ($i = 0; $i <= $bundle->MessageCount - 1; $i++) {

    // email is a Chilkat.Email
    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);

    //  Display the From and Subject
    print $email->from() . "\n";
    print $email->subject() . "\n";

    //  Display the recipients:

    for ($j = 0; $j <= $email->NumTo - 1; $j++) {
        $name = $email->getToName($j);
        $addr = $email->getToAddr($j);
        print $name . ', ' . $addr . "\n";
    }

    for ($j = 0; $j <= $email->NumCC - 1; $j++) {
        $name = $email->getCcName($j);
        $addr = $email->getCcAddr($j);
        print $name . ', ' . $addr . "\n";
    }

    //  Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    print $email->Size . "\n";

    //  When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
    //  email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
    //  email.GetMailAttach* methods.
    //  However, when an email object contains only the header,
    //  we need to access the attachment info differently:
    $numAttach = $imap->GetMailNumAttach($email);
    for ($j = 0; $j <= $numAttach - 1; $j++) {
        print $imap->getMailAttachFilename($email,$j) . "\n";
        $attachSize = $imap->GetMailAttachSize($email,$j);
        print '    size = ' . $attachSize . ' bytes' . "\n";
    }

    print '--' . "\n";

}

//  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap->Disconnect();


?>