Re: note 9591 added to imap_check

Hm... i guess that i should of bad mouth the imap_check() then.... what i was trying to do is to show a new message count as long as there are unseen messages in the mailbox..... as i can see you are pretty good with imap functions.... can you tell me which function does imap_sort use to get the headers ? i am actually extracting needed into from the imap_fetch_overview() i know that this is not a really good way, but that works for me and once again, this is my first project and i've never programmed before so i am doing my best.... igor Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > > as 'recent' is defined as > > "arrived in the mailbox since the previous time the mailbox was opened", > > you don't have to blame imap_check() but imap_open() instead > > > > i assume what you are really looking for is the unseen property returned > > by imap_status() ... ? > > oh, and by the way: > > imap_status() will return the 'recent' count for a mailbox too, > and if you pass it only the SA_RECENT flag it should not even > reset this value as it does not have to open the mailbox for > this operation > > but if you add the SA_USEEN flag it might have to open the mailbox > (this is implementation dependant) thus resetting the recent > counter once again > > so if you really just want to get the recent count, you should do a > > <?php > > > $mail_connection=imap_open("{server}INBOX","user","password",OP_HALFOPEN); > $res = imap_status($mail_connection,"{server}mailbox",SA_RECENT); > echo "Recent: ".$res->recent; > imap_close($mail_connection); > ?> > -- > Harmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de