Imap functions help

[PoorDoggie]

Hi - I have a string of questions for you here:

• What are the default ports for pop3 and imap? My mail server is located at mail.domain.com but I can't access it by leaving out the port number (pop3). Not sure about imap, but would rather know for future reference.
• My gmail account requires a connection "over ssl". Can I replicate this over php? (port 995 I think?) Is there an imap ssl connection available as well, and if there is, what is the port number for that?
• thats it for now, until I think of something else to bore you with

Thanks a lot
Tom

 

[abdulmueid]

Hello PoorDoggie,

1. Default port for POP3 is 110. Default port for IMAP is 143

2. Yes, you can have a SSL connection in PHP. The IMAP functions in PHP can be used to open POP connections too. To use Gmail you would have something like

$gmail = imap_open ("{pop.gmail.com:995/pop3/ssl}INBOX", "user_id", "password");

SSL connections do not require a separate port number. SSL is basically added protection to your current connection on existing port.

3. You may bore me some more :P

 

[PoorDoggie]

thanks a lot! will put that to practice

Thanks about me asking more questions as well, I am sure I will come across some more later on, oh wait here comes one:

is the default imap port in php 143? because with my host's mail server I can access my imap account without a port, but with the port 143 it "cannot connect". Any ideas?

Thanks
Tom

EDIT: got it - forgot the ":" between the server and the port!

Ok, here's one for you - is there any way of getting http mail via php?

 

[abdulmueid]

>>GLAD IT GOT SORTED<<

What do you mean by HTTP mail?

I have a question for you too: Why not use POP3? it is much simpler and most mail clients supports it... even PHP does

 

[PoorDoggie]

>>GLAD IT GOT SORTED<<

What do you mean by HTTP mail?

I have a question for you too: Why not use POP3? it is much simpler and most mail clients supports it... even PHP does

you see - I have three email accounts:
1. is my host's and they offer collection via imap (*sighs*)
2. is gmail which only offer pop3 (which still aint working... grr)
3. is hotmail which only offer HTTP mail (I think, but haven't really looked into it)