Bug #53182 [Com]: imap_search not valid with RFC 3501 (still stuck with IMAPv2)
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53182&edit=1
ID: 53182
Comment by: dkarp at zimbra dot com
Reported by: william dot bessat at gmail dot com
Summary: imap_search not valid with RFC 3501 (still stuck
with IMAPv2)
Status: Wont fix
Type: Bug
Package: IMAP related
Operating System: All
PHP Version: 5.3.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The IMAP c-client certainly supports UID ranges. This is a PHP issue.
SEARCHSET *msgno; a set of message sequence numbers
SEARCHSET *uid; a set of unique identifiers
http://skull.piratehaven.org/~bapper/imap/mail_search_funcs.html
Previous Comments:
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[2010-10-29 12:44:04] aharvey@php.net
PHP's IMAP extension simply calls c-client, so it's entirely dependent
on what that library supports in terms of search syntax. There's nothing
we can really do on the PHP side to help.
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[2010-10-27 21:50:30] william dot bessat at gmail dot com
The search string I provided in the example is to fetch all messages
where UID>=200.
The goal of this search is to keep up to date a webmail, without
retriving the whole mailbox content each time you want to synchronize
it, since you can't rely on the SEEN/RECENT flag (if the mailbox is
opened with another software in the meantime). Using dates to achieve
that is a dirty workaround...
imap_search() is stuck with the RFC 1176 (august 1990 !!111!!!)
PS: Sorry for the triple-post, this is my first bug report and I didn't
know we can't edit things.
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[2010-10-27 12:49:28] william dot bessat at gmail dot com
There's a typo in the imap_search(), the resource is, of course, before
the search string :)
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[2010-10-27 12:45:58] william dot bessat at gmail dot com
Description:
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Hi,
The imap_search function is not compliant with the RFC 3501.
We can not search messages using their UID.
Example : imap_search("UID 200:*, $link);
The output goes in the error_log with this message :
[27-Oct-2010 12:34:35] PHP Notice: Unknown: Unknown search criterion:
UID (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0
Imo, this functionnality should be implemented for building advanced
webmails.
This is not a real *bug*, but more a lack of functionnality.
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