imap_list

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imap_listRead the list of mailboxes

说明

imap_list ( resource $imap , string $reference , string $pattern ) : array|false

Read the list of mailboxes.

参数

imap

imap_open() 返回的 IMAP 流。

reference

reference should normally be just the server specification as described in imap_open().

Warning

Passing untrusted data to this parameter is insecure, unless imap.enable_insecure_rsh is disabled.

pattern

指定在邮箱层级的何处开始查找。

在组成 pattern 的字符中可使用两个特殊字符: '*' 和 '%'。 '*' 是指返回所有邮箱目录. 如果将 '*' 作为 pattern 参数时, 则会返回整个邮箱层级结构。 '%' 是指只返回当前级次。 '%' 作为 pattern 参数则只会返回顶层邮箱; '~/mail/%' 用于 UW_IMAPD 则会返回名为 ~/mail 的目录, 但不包含其子目录。

返回值

Returns an array containing the names of the mailboxes or false in case of failure.

范例

Example #1 imap_list() example

<?php
$mbox 
imap_open("{imap.example.org}""username""password"OP_HALFOPEN)
      or die(
"can't connect: " imap_last_error());

$list imap_list($mbox"{imap.example.org}""*");
if (
is_array($list)) {
    foreach (
$list as $val) {
        echo 
imap_utf7_decode($val) . "\n";
    }
} else {
    echo 
"imap_list failed: " imap_last_error() . "\n";
}

imap_close($mbox);
?>

参见

User Contributed Notes

maxime dot marais+php at gmail dot com 04-Apr-2019 11:51
Please be aware that if you are trying to list an empty mailbox, imap_list will return FALSE as if there was an error instead of an empty array() as one may expect.

Example:

With a brand new account created on your mail server, with an empty INBOX, you will get:

$list = imap_list( $imap_stream, $ref, "INBOX/*");
var_dump( $list );
// bool(false)
Anonymous 19-Mar-2019 09:56
use
echo mb_convert_encoding($val, "utf-8", "UTF7-IMAP");
for cyrrilic folder names
jemore at free dot fr 29-Mar-2014 02:02
With the values returned from the imap_list function, you can search a message in the folder, but you have to use the imap_reopen function before . Continuing the previous example (from c6h1206free at gmail dot com )

<?php
  $srv
= '{imap.example.com}';
 
$conn = imap_open($srv, 'me', 'mypass');
 
$boxes = imap_list($conn, $srv, '*');
  foreach(
$boxes as $box)
  {
   
imap_reopen($srv, $box);
   
var_dump(imap_search($srv, "ALL"));
  }
 
imap_close($conn);
?>
c6h1206free at gmail dot com 16-Sep-2008 12:00
imap_list returns a simple array of strings that look just like the $ref parameter one needs to specify:

<?php

  $srv
= '{imap.example.com}';

 
$conn = imap_open($srv, 'me', 'mypass');

 
$boxes = imap_list($conn, $srv, '*');

 
print_r($boxes);
 
imap_close($conn);
?>

Output:

<pre>
Array
(
    [0] => {imap.example.com}Calendar
    [1] => {imap.example.com}Contacts
    [2] => {imap.example.com}Deleted Items
    [3] => {imap.example.com}Drafts
    [4] => {imap.example.com}Journal
    [5] => {imap.example.com}Junk E-mail
    [6] => {imap.example.com}Notes
    [7] => {imap.example.com}Outbox
    [8] => {imap.example.com}RSS Feeds
    [9] => {imap.example.com}Sent Items 
    [10] => {imap.example.com}Tasks
)
</pre>

These directly fill in the $ref argument for every function that takes one.
kevin at metalaxe dot com 05-Jun-2007 02:13
if there is an error imap_list returns FALSE not an empty array (as expected by docs)