Forwarding emails with a PHP script

Question

We have a cron\'ed PHP script that checks an inbox every ten minutes. The purpose of this script is to handle \"STOP to quit\" functionality for our SMS notification service

Answer 1

use an IO handler to capture the content of the email as a string, split out the headers and then use the php 'mail()' function to send it.

Else if you really want to do this with php-imap,

the php-imap extension is libc-client which is part of the pine email client software figure out the manual steps needed to do it using pine and then look at the c-client calls pine makes to do it. that will give you the steps needed in php.

the c-client documentation is fairly minimal, going to the pine source is the best way to get usage details.

I think you may find that the author of the php extension has "for your convenience or protection" omitted or changed stuff that blocks this path.