Note Submitter: greenie at oddpost dot com
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I was trying to use the example code above to connect to a POP mailbox, but no matter how I arranged the elements of the mailbox name, the script hung on the imap_open() command, and never came back. No error message, no timeout - the browser just spins. Strangely, the same syntax worked just fine for a local mailbox.
I did some Googling, and it looks like many others are having the same problem. Finally, I got it to work using the following syntax:
$mbox = imap_open( "{yourmailserver.com/pop3:110/notls}INBOX", "username", "password" );
Note that the port information comes AFTER the "/pop3" bit, which is contrary to the examples given above. I have no idea if this is correct or not, but it works for me :)
FWIW, I'm using PHP 4.1.2.
Also - others here have suggested using the "/notls" part, but haven't explained what it does: it explicitly requests a non-SSL connection.
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