Question : Problems using imap functions

I'm trying to build an email message parser for our site. What I'm eventually going to do is iterate through the messages that have attachments and save the attachment if the message comes from a particular email address.
This is just the initial test, however, I am running into problems, see comments below.

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<?php
  echo "Loading..."."<br />\n";
  $mailuser="[email protected]";
  
  echo "User=$mailuser"."<br />\n";;
  $mailpass="mypassword";
  echo "Pass=$mailpass"."<br />\n";
  // had to use this because we have SSL on site and regular port 110 didn't work
  $mailhost="{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}";
  echo "Host=$mailhost"."<br />\n";
  
  $mailbox=imap_open($mailhost,$mailuser,$mailpass) or die("<br />\nFAILLED! ".imap_last_error());
  $check = imap_check($mailbox);
  // last message parsed will be stored in the file msgcounter.dat
  $firstmsg = file_get_contents('msgcounter.dat') + 1;
  $lastmsg  = $firstmsg+$check->Recent; // should be == last msg index + count of latest messages
  echo 'First:'.$firstmsg.' - Last:'.$lastmsg."<br>";
  $result   = imap_fetch_overview($mailbox,"$firstmsg:$lastmsg");
  print_r($result); // returns empty array
  foreach ($result as $overview) {
    // never enters this loop.
    echo "#{$overview->msgno} ({$overview->date}) - From: {$overview->from}
    {$overview->subject}\n";
  }
  // the following approach didn't work either, Kept getting warnings about
  // Bad message number 
  //
  // Some messages in the sequence HAVE been deleted.
  /*
  for ($index = $firstmsg-1; $index <= ($lastmsg); $index++ ) {
    if (strlen(trim(imap_fetchheader($mailbox, $index))) > 0) { 
      echo 'in message index loop:'.$index;
    }
  }
  */
  imap_close($mailbox);
echo "completed.". "<br />\n";;
?>

Answer : Problems using imap functions

OK, here is the answer to my problem...

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<?php
  $mailpass="mypassword";
  $mailhost="{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}";
  $mailuser="[email protected]";
  
  $mailbox=imap_open($mailhost,$mailuser,$mailpass) or die("<br />\nFAILLED! ".imap_last_error());

  // The IMAP.xml file contains the email address and user_id of the users that we accept 
  // their files via email 
  $xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents('IMAP.xml'));
  $result = $xml->xpath('item');
  while(list( , $node) = each($result)) {
    $email   = $node->LI_email;
    $user_id = $node->LI_user_id;
    $search  = "UNSEEN FROM \"$email\"";
    $result2 = imap_search($mailbox, $search);
    if($result2) {
      $index = $result2[0];
      $structure = imap_fetchstructure($mailbox, $index);
      
      $attachments = array();
      if(isset($structure->parts) && count($structure->parts)) {
        for($i = 0; $i < count($structure->parts); $i++) {
          $attachments[$i] = array(
            'is_attachment' => false,
            'filename' => '',
            'name' => '',
            'attachment' => '');
          
          if($structure->parts[$i]->ifdparameters) {
            foreach($structure->parts[$i]->dparameters as $object) {
              if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'filename') {
                $attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;
                $attachments[$i]['filename'] = $object->value;
              }
            }
          }
          
          if($structure->parts[$i]->ifparameters) {
            foreach($structure->parts[$i]->parameters as $object) {
              if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'name') {
                $attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;
                $attachments[$i]['name'] = $object->value;
              }
            }
          }
          
          if($attachments[$i]['is_attachment']) {
            $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = imap_fetchbody($mailbox, $index, $i+1, FT_PEEK);
            if($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 3) { // 3 = BASE64
              $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = base64_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
            }
            elseif($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 4) { // 4 = QUOTED-PRINTABLE
              $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = quoted_printable_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
            }
          } // if($attachments[$i]['is_attachment'])
        } // for($i = 0; $i < count($structure->parts); $i++)
      } // if(isset($structure->parts) && count($structure->parts))

      for($i = 0; $i < count($attachments); $i++) {
        if (strlen(trim($attachments[$i]['filename'])) > 0) {
          $path_parts = pathinfo($attachments[$i]['filename']);
          if(strtolower($path_parts['extension']) == 'zip') {
            // I am going to do something different with ziped files
          } else {
            $filename = 'file_uploads/'.$user_id.'_'.$path_parts['filename'].'_'.date('m_d_Y').'.'.$path_parts['extension'];
            $fp = fopen($filename, "x");
            fwrite($fp, $attachments[$i]['attachment']);
            fclose($fp);
          } // if(strtolower($path_parts['extension']) == 'zip')
        } // if (strlen(trim($attachments['name'])) > 0
      } // for($i = 0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
    } // if($result2)
  } // while(list( , $node) = each($result))
  
  imap_close($mailbox);
?>