Spent ages trying to get this to work, then eventually remembered I had opened the mailbox READONLY - obviously you need write permission for setting flags!
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
imap_setflag_full — Sets flags on messages
Causes a store to add the specified flag to the
flags set for the messages in the specified
sequence.
imapAn IMAP\Connection instance.
sequence
A sequence of message numbers. You can enumerate desired messages
with the X,Y syntax, or retrieve all messages
within an interval with the X:Y syntax
flag
The flags which you can set are \Seen,
\Answered, \Flagged,
\Deleted, and \Draft as
defined by » RFC2060.
optionsA bit mask that may contain the single option:
ST_UID - The sequence argument contains UIDs
instead of sequence numbers
Always returns true.
Throws a ValueError if options
is invalid.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
The imap parameter expects an IMAP\Connection
instance now; previously, a valid imap resource was expected.
|
| 8.0.0 |
A ValueError is now thrown on invalid
options parameter values. Previously,
a warning was emitted and the function returned false.
|
Example #1 imap_setflag_full() example
<?php
$mbox = imap_open("{imap.example.org:143}", "username", "password")
or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
$status = imap_setflag_full($mbox, "2,5", "\\Seen \\Flagged");
echo gettype($status) . "\n";
echo $status . "\n";
imap_close($mbox);
?>Spent ages trying to get this to work, then eventually remembered I had opened the mailbox READONLY - obviously you need write permission for setting flags!Where possible I would avoid using POP3 accounts. My host allowed me to upgrade to IMAP and it is so much easier. I think the only way to accurately create any form of mail client with POP3 is to download the messages into an SQL database which is a big task to start with, considering the IMAP standards have the functionality we need built in.
I experimented with flag setting in POP3 and it seems they do not stick at all, and it is almost impossible to retrieve the number of unread messages (ie. the Seen / Unseen thing does not work)
Converted to IMAP and it's working - the majority of the functions in this section seem to be IMAP focussed and WILL NOT generally work with POP3