IMAP Functions

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This document can't go into detail on all the topics touched by the provided functions. Further information is provided by the documentation of the c-client library source (docs/internal.txt). and the following RFC documents:

A detailed overview is also available in the books » Programming Internet Email by David Wood and » Managing IMAP by Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet.

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v dot 0000000001 dot -0006398047 at vertabiz dot com
19 years ago
Since this library at a whole is fairly poorly documented, and it doesn't help that there's 30-something functions, and many of the functions do the same things, I have gone through and categorized the functions. Hopefully this will help somebody else, I know it will help me!! -Justin

CONNECTION, ERRORS & QUOTAS
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imap_timeout
imap_ping
imap_open
imap_reopen
imap_close
imap_check **(fairly useless)
imap_alerts
imap_errors
imap_last_error
imap_get_quota
imap_get_quotaroot
imap_set_quota

MESSAGES - READING
==================
imap_uid
imap_msgno
imap_fetchbody
imap_fetchheader
imap_fetchstructure
imap_fetch_overview
imap_body
imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist
imap_rfc822_parse_headers

MESSAGES - WRITING
==================
imap_mail_compose
imap_mail
imap_append
imap_rfc822_write_address

MESSAGES - OPERATIONS
=====================
imap_undelete
imap_thread
imap_delete
imap_mail_copy
imap_mail_move
imap_expunge
imap_clearflag_full
imap_setflag_full

MESSAGES - DECODE/ENCODE
========================
imap_utf7_decode
imap_utf7_encode
imap_utf8
imap_8bit
imap_base64
imap_binary
imap_mime_header_decode
imap_qprint

FOLDERS
=======
imap_createmailbox
imap_deletemailbox
imap_getmailboxes
imap_mailboxmsginfo
imap_renamemailbox
imap_headers **(fairly useless)
imap_status
imap_sort
imap_search
imap_listscan

NNTP
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imap_unsubscribe
imap_subscribe
imap_getsubscribed

Others
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imap_num_msg - use imap_mailboxmsginfo()
imap_num_recent - use imap_mailboxmsginfo()
imap_header - alias of imap_headerinfo()
imap_scanmailbox - alias of imap_listscan()
imap_listsubscribed - alias of imap_lsub()
imap_listmailbox - alias of imap_list()
imap_lsub - use imap_getsubscribed()
imap_list - use imap_getmailboxes()
imap_bodystruct - not documented
imap_getacl - not documented
imap_setacl - not documented
imap_headerinfo - use imap_fetch_overview()
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