Sort Email by Date

Read a POP3 mailbox and sort by Date. The POP3 protocol does not provide the ability to download emails within a date range. However, once emails are downloaded, they may be sorted by date using the Chilkat email bundle object.

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<?php

//  The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3)
//  and sending (SMTP) email.
$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan2");

//  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
$success = $mailman->UnlockComponent('30-day trial');
if ($success != true) {
    print 'Component unlock failed' . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Set the POP3 server's hostname
$mailman->MailHost = 'mail.chilkatsoft.com';

//  Set the POP3 login/password.
$mailman->PopUsername = 'matt@chilkatsoft.com';
$mailman->PopPassword = '****';

//  Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox
//  into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
//  You may copy full emails, or headers-only. Call CopyMail
//  to copy full emails.  Call GetAllHeaders to copy email headers.
//  bundle = mailman.CopyMail();
$numBodyLines = 1;
$bundle = $mailman->GetAllHeaders($numBodyLines);

if (is_null($bundle)) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Sort the email in the bundle by date.

$ascending = true;
$bundle->SortByDate($ascending);

for ($i = 0; $i <= $bundle->MessageCount - 1; $i++) {
    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);
    print $email->getHeaderField('Date') . "\n";

}


?>