Re: running conditions while looping through arrays....

On Mon, June 19, 2006 11:05 am, IG wrote: > I want to run filters on an pop3 inbox. You may want to just use IMAP protocol... > I have the following arrays which I'll get from the database- > > $subject > $email > $body > $subject_like > $email_like > $body_like > > I then go through each email in turn using this loop- I do it just like this: http://l-i-e.com/imap/index.phps > $popy = "{".$pop3."/pop3:110}INBOX"; > $mailbox = imap_open($popy, $un, $pw); > $num_messages = imap_num_msg($mailbox); > if ($num_messages <= $no_srch) {$rrt = 0;} else {$rrt = > $num_messages-$no_srch;} > for($i=$num_messages; $i>($rrt); $i--) { > > > What I want to do is to check if the email address or subject or body > of > each email is exactly like any of the details stored in the arrays > $subject, $email, $body and to check if the email address or subject > or > body contains a word or phrase from the arrays $subject_like, > $email_like, $body_like. > > For example- > > $subject[0] = "SPAM"; $email[0]= ""; > $body[0] = ""; > $subject_like[0] = ""; > $email_like[0] = ""; > $body_like[0] = ""; > // If the subject of the email = "spam" > > $subject[1] = ""; $email[1]= "spam@spammer.com"; > $body[1] = ""; > $subject_like[1] = ""; > $email_like[1] = ""; > $body_like[1] = ""; > // if the email address of the email = "spam@spammer.com" > > $subject[2] = ""; $email[2]= ""; > $body[2] = "spam body text"; > $subject_like[2] = ""; > $email_like[2] = ""; > $body_like[2] = ""; > // if the body of the email = "spam body text" > > $subject[3] = "SPAM"; $email[3]= "spam@spammer.com"; > $body[3] = ""; > $subject_like[3] = ""; > $email_like[3] = ""; > $body_like[3] = ""; > // if the subject of the email = "SPAM" AND the email address = > "spam@spammer.com" > > $subject[4] = "SPAM"; $email[4]= ""; > $body[4] = ""; > $subject_like[4] = ""; > $email_like[4] = ""; > $body_like[4] = "spam text"; > // if the subject of the email = "SPAM" AND the body contains "spam > text" > > > If any of the above conditions are met then the email message is then > stored in a database and deleted of the POP3 server. > > Is there a quick way of doing the above? The only way I can think of > is > by looping through each array for every email. This is really really > slow. I'd be grateful for some help here.... I found that using SpamAssassin (SA), and setting up a different directory for each 'score' in SA and then sorting my incoming email for a month by 'score' into those boxes... pretty much, everything scoring higher than 1 or 2 was spam. After I trashed all 3+ SA, my own personal spam filters in PHP were pretty superfluous. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm