I had a mail server that only supported IMAP, but their webmail interface is horrible. So I decided to write a small script to grab the email from the imap server and save it locally. In my case the local directory is the mail directory in cpanel so I can use gmail to grab the emails via POP3 to use gmail. The mail flow is:
IMAP SERVER -> SCRIPT -> LOCAL POP3 -> GMAIL
imapscript
'; ?> Nmsgs}",0); foreach ($result as $overview) { echo "$overview->subject\n"; $mailfile = tempnam("/home/mth/mail/stephenjc.com/asa/cur/","EMAIL-"); $message = imap_fetchbody($srcstream,$overview->uid,"",FT_UID); $localmail = fopen($mailfile, "w"); fwrite($localmail,$message); fclose($localmail); imap_mail_move($srcstream,$overview->msgno,'Forwarded'); } imap_expunge($srcstream); imap_close($srcstream); echo "deleteing lock\n"; unlink($lockfile); echo ' ]]>