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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Check email
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:28:52 +0100
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sl@exabyte, 2012-01-22 04:16:

> Is it possible to find out whether there are any new emails in a mailbox 
> without logging in ?

No.

> In other words, some PHP codes to return the number of new emails in a an 
> email account.

One approach:

<?php
$server = "{pop3.example.com:110/pop3}INBOX";
$user = "mail@example.com";
$pass = "mypassword";
$messagecount = 0;

$mbox = imap_open($server, $user, $passwd);
if($mbox)
{
    $messagecount = imap_num_msg($mbox);
    imap_close($mbox);
}
?>

See more at <http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php>.


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