Overview

The Imap class provides a simple interface for communicating with an IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol v4) server. If you wish to retrieve email securely using an SSL enabled IMAP server please see the API documentation for details on the ImapSsl class.

This section is divided into the following topics.

Connecting to a IMAP server

Capturing Imap related events

Sending IMAP commands

Getting the message count

Retrieving new messages

Retrieving all messages

Retrieving a single message

Deleting all messages

Deleting a single message

Getting the message body

Getting message attachments