Php mail reader

Question

Hi guys, anybody know any PHP library to read various mail services? Like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo?

It would be great if the library could parse the email and mark as read...

Thanks

Answer 1

See the PHP IMAP library. That'll work for Gmail at least.

Answer 2

I've used the PHP Imap/POP3 library together with pieces from the Horde project to parse attachments. Horde provides a couple of helpful classes to handle MIME encodings.

I downloaded the entire Horde stack and used the individual classes in my application.

Answer 3

A solution might be to use the Zend_Mail component of Zend Framework -- if it's as several other components, you could be able to use it outside of the Framework, not having too much work to do to "extract" it.

The documentation page about Reading Mail Messages could interest you.