[PHP-DEV] Bug #10850 Updated: imap_uid() does not produce an Unique ID Number from POP Servers From: sniper <email protected>
Date: 05/15/01

ID: 10850
Updated by: sniper
Reported By: mattias.segerdahl <email protected>
Status: Open
Old-Bug Type: IMAP related
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating system:
PHP Version: 4.0.5
Assigned To:
Comments:

reclassify for real now..

Previous Comments:
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[2001-05-15 13:02:29] sniper <email protected>
Reopened as documentation problem as this is at least the second time this has been reported as bug.

>From Mark Crispin (author of c-client?)

"POP3 UIDs are not supported.
This is a permanent restriction."

--Jani

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[2001-05-15 01:50:05] mattias.segerdahl <email protected>
As far as I can see,

The following text for the manual says that there will be unique numbers, not numbers that change over time, and the only unique numbers that are available for a message is the UIDL number from the server,

>From the php manual:

This function returns the UID for the given message sequence number. An UID is an unique identifier that will not change over time while a message sequence number may change whenever the content of the mailbox changes. This function is the inverse of imap_msgno().

In other words, an UID is not a seq number that starts with 1, goes on with 2 3 4 5 6 etc. etc. and then starts all over when the mailbox is empty...

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[2001-05-14 13:19:37] vlad <email protected>
uhhh... no, it shouldn't. Those are not UID's.

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[2001-05-14 09:38:37] mattias.segerdahl <email protected>
The following code should echo out the Unique ID's generated by UIDL on the IMAP/POP Server, but echo's out a sequencial number starting with 1 instead...

It should probably produce ID's like, 3afffb5300000001, 3afffb5300000002, etc. etc.

$mbox = imap_open ("{your.imap.host:143}", "username", "password");

$headers = imap_headers ($mbox);

if ($headers == true) {
    while (list ($key,$val) = each ($headers)) {
        echo imap_uid($mbox, $key);
    }
} else {
    echo "No messages in inbox";
}

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