Bug #10850 Updated: imap_uid() does not produce an Unique ID Number from POP Servers

ID: 10850 Updated by: sniper Reported By: mattias.segerdahl@commentor.se Old-Status: Closed Status: Open Bug Type: IMAP related Operating system: PHP Version: 4.0.5 Assigned To: Comments: Reopened as documentation problem as this is at least the second time this has been reported as bug. From Mark Crispin (author of c-client?) "POP3 UIDs are not supported. This is a permanent restriction." --Jani Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-05-15 01:50:05] mattias.segerdahl@commentor.se As far as I can see, The following text for the manual says that there will be unique numbers, not numbers that change over time, and the only unique numbers that are available for a message is the UIDL number from the server, From the php manual: This function returns the UID for the given message sequence number. An UID is an unique identifier that will not change over time while a message sequence number may change whenever the content of the mailbox changes. This function is the inverse of imap_msgno(). In other words, an UID is not a seq number that starts with 1, goes on with 2 3 4 5 6 etc. etc. and then starts all over when the mailbox is empty... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-05-14 13:19:37] vlad@php.net uhhh... no, it shouldn't. Those are not UID's. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-05-14 09:38:37] mattias.segerdahl@commentor.se The following code should echo out the Unique ID's generated by UIDL on the IMAP/POP Server, but echo's out a sequencial number starting with 1 instead... It should probably produce ID's like, 3afffb5300000001, 3afffb5300000002, etc. etc. $mbox = imap_open ("{your.imap.host:143}", "username", "password"); $headers = imap_headers ($mbox); if ($headers == true) { while (list ($key,$val) = each ($headers)) { echo imap_uid($mbox, $key); } } else { echo "No messages in inbox"; } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10850&edit=2