Ok, this page is driving me crazy. Parsing the lines returned in the array is simple enough but there is no definitions on what the flags mean. So I searched the web to find the answer and this is what I was able to gather:
A - Answered: email has been replied to
N - New: Recent and not seen
R - Recent: Recent and seen
U - Unread: The message has not been read yet
F - Flagged: Message is "flagged" for urgent/special attention
D - Deleted: Message is "deleted" for removal by later EXPUNGE
X - Draft: Message has not completed composition (marked as a draft).
please correct me if I am wrong...
imap_headers
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
imap_headers — Liefert die Kopfzeilen aller Nachrichten eines Postfachs
Beschreibung
Diese Funktion gibt die Kopfzeilen aller Nachrichten eines Postfachs zurück.
Rückgabewerte
Gibt ein Array aus Strings mit formatierten Headerinformationen zurück. Das
Array enthält ein Element für jede Nachricht im Postfach. Bei einem Fehler
wird false zurückgegeben.
Changelog
| Version | Beschreibung |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
Der Parameter imap erwartet nun eine
IMAP\Connection-Instanz; vorher wurde eine gültige
imap-Ressource erwartet.
|
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User Contributed Notes 5 notes
paulwright75 at hotmail dot com ¶
11 years ago
mmuoio at gmail dot com ¶
15 years ago
This function will not return a full subject line if it is longer than 25 characters. I found this out after trying to search each header and move the email to a different folder depending on what the subject was (searching for year and project number).
webmaster at RealityRipple dot com ¶
6 years ago
Just a helpful hint, many IMAP servers will include non-standard flags in curly braces before the subject in the response of this function. Pretty sure this is the only way to determine if a message has been forwarded, for example, when using the IMAP functions. The first flag (or more) may be prefixed with a dollar sign ($). It's (probably) likely that any such flags received by a server can be passed through imap_append to that server, as well.
antispam at katiheta dot net ¶
11 years ago
Message flag descriptions can be found on official imap_headerinfo page (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-headerinfo.php) in "Return Value" paragraph.
Anonymous ¶
3 years ago
the format returned is very fixed:
FLAGS (space) NUMBER (*) DATE (space) SENDER (space) SUBJECT (space) LENGTH
NUMBER will be a left-padded string of up to 4 digits + ")", starting with 5 digits, it is those 5 digits (without the ")")
DATE will be a left-padded string like " 2-Apr-2021" or a non-padded string like "13-Apr-2021"
SENDER is 20 chars long
SUBJECT is 25 chars long
LENGTH is a string like "(1248 chars)" , however it allows more digits and is not padded.
