PHP - Grabbing Email Using POP3

The following code will grab the mails from hotmail. Enter the username and password credentials for login. You can also grab mails from gmail, yahoo etc.

	<?php
	require("pop3.class.php");
	require('mime_parser.php');
	require('rfc822_addresses.php');
	stream_wrapper_register('pop3', 'pop3_stream');
	$pop3=new pop3_class;
	$pop3->hostname="pop3.live.com"; /* POP 3 server host name */
	$pop3->port=995; /* POP 3 server host port, usually 110 but some servers use other ports Gmail uses 995 */
	$pop3->tls=1; /* Establish secure connections using TLS */
	$user="******@live.com"; /* Authentication user name */
	$password="******"; /* Authentication password */
	$pop3->realm=""; /* Authentication realm or domain */
	$pop3->workstation=""; /* Workstation for NTLM authentication */
	$apop=0; /* Use APOP authentication */
	$pop3->authentication_mechanism="USER"; /* SASL authentication mechanism */
	$pop3->debug=0; /* Output debug information */
	$pop3->html_debug=0; /* Debug information is in HTML */
	$pop3->join_continuation_header_lines=0; /* Concatenate headers split in multiple lines */
	if(($error=$pop3->Open())=="")
	{
	echo "<PRE>Connected to the POP3 server &quot;".$pop3->hostname."&quot;.</PRE>\n";
	if(($error=$pop3->Login($user,$password,$apop))=="")
	{
	echo "<PRE>User &quot;$user&quot; logged in.</PRE>\n";
	if(($error=$pop3->Statistics($messages,$size))=="")
	{
	echo "<PRE>There are $messages messages in the mail box with a total of $size bytes.</PRE>\n";
	$count=$messages-3;
	for($i=$messages;$i>=$count;$i--)
	{
	if($messages>0)
	{
	$pop3->GetConnectionName($connection_name);
	$message=$i;
	$message_file='pop3://'.$connection_name.'/'.$message;
	$mime=new mime_parser_class;
	/*
	* Set to 0 for not decoding the message bodies
	*/
	$mime->decode_bodies =1;
	$parameters=array(
	'File'=>$message_file,
	/* Read a message from a string instead of a file */
	//'Data'=>$message_file,
	/* Save the message body parts to a directory */
	/* 'SaveBody'=>'/tmp', */
	/* Do not retrieve or save message body parts */
	'SkipBody'=>0,
	);
	$success=$mime->Decode($parameters, $decoded);
	if(!$success)
	echo '<h2>MIME message decoding error: '.HtmlSpecialChars($mime->error).'</h2>\n';
	else
	{
	/*echo '<h2>MIME message decoding successful</h2>'."\n";
	echo '<h2>Message structure</h2>'."\n";
	echo '<pre>';
	var_dump($decoded);
	echo '</pre>';*/
	//echo "Message id".$decoded[0]["Headers"]["x-message-delivery:"];
	$message_id=$decoded[0]["Headers"]["x-message-delivery:"];
	if($mime->Analyze($decoded[0], $results))
	{
	echo "Subject :".$results['Subject']."<br>";
	echo "From :".$results['From']."<br>";
	echo "To :".$results['To']."<br>";
	echo "Sent :".$results['Date']."<br>";
	echo "Data :".$results['Data']."<br>";
	}
	else
	echo 'MIME message analyse error: '.$mime->error.'\n';
	}
	}
	}
	if($error==""&& ($error=$pop3->Close())=="")
	echo "<PRE>Disconnected from the POP3 server &quot;".$pop3->hostname."&quot;.</PRE>\n";
	}
	}
	}
	if($error!="")
	echo "<pre>Error: ",HtmlSpecialChars($error),"</pre>";
	?>

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We also need three classes along with this code to make it work. The full code was available in the github. You can download it from here.