imap_mail_move

ThEDocTor (2011-02-01 22:15:36)

To copy/move a mail in Gmail to a particular Folder like Starred/Spam/Drafts/Trash

use the following statement and don't forget to call CL_EXPUNGE or imap_expunge($mbox) after it.

<?php
imap_mail_copy($mbox,'16','[Gmail]/Starred'); // 16 is the message number, which can also be a range.(ex: '1:15')

imap_close($mbox,CL_EXPUNGE);
?>

Incase u want to send it to a personally created Label/folder(ex: Test) use..

<?php 
imap_mail_copy($mbox,'16','Test');
imap_expunge($mbox);
imap_close($mbox);
?>

jim dot bodine at comcast dot net (2007-07-04 22:49:25)

I offer the following example because it took me HOURS to figure this out

<?php
$this->mailInBox = imap_open($this->mailConnectString."INBOX", $this->accountLogin, $this->accountPassword);

            $this->messageCount = imap_num_msg($this->mailInBox);
            echo "Processing " . $this->messageCount . " messages:<Br>";
            for ($i = 1; $i <= $this->messageCount; ++$i) {
                $header = imap_header($this->mailInBox, $i);
                                
                $prettydate = date("jS F Y", $header->udate);
                $fromHost = $header->from[0]->host;
                
                if (isset($header->from[0]->personal)) {
                    $personal = $header->from[0]->personal;
                } else {
                    $personal = $header->from[0]->mailbox;
                }
                
                $body = imap_fetchbody($this->mailInBox, $i, "1.1");
                if ($body == "") {
                   $body = imap_fetchbody($this->mailInBox, $i, "1");
                }

                    $move = "INBOX.processed" . date("Ymd");
                    echo "trying to move:" . $i . "<br>";
                    @imap_mail_move($this->mailInBox, $i, $move); 
                                        
                }

?>

alex at bestgames dot ro (2005-11-21 01:36:14)

After using imap_mail_move, imap_mail_copy or imap_delete it is necesary to call imap_expunge() function.

php at guardn dot de (2003-07-09 09:06:49)

dinter at gmx dot de (2003-01-27 10:18:31)

I've used a dot in
imap_mail_move($mbox,$movmsgid,'INBOX.send');
instead of
INBOX/test
and it work's fine.

vlad (php.net) (2002-11-04 13:37:35)

This keeps biting me time after time. A lot of IMAP servers with quotas don't implement 'move' right - they do a 'copy&delete' instead and don't recognize that this conflicts with their quota implementetions. So, if you try to move a large message, you'll exceed your quota even though moving it does not increase the total size of your mailbox. This is not PHP-specific, but I bet it'll bite someone else besides me, so here you go.

juuuugroid at yahoo dot com (2002-07-17 02:28:48)

I had the most trouble with figureing out what the message list was supposed to be. There was one comment by jan@showstar.com but i was still terribly confused. So I searched and searched and searched. I read rfc2060 over 10 times. Then BAM! My brother found it here:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2060.html#sec-6.4.7
Here is the importand stuff.
Another important field is the SEQUENCE, which identifies a set of messages by consecutive numbers from 1 to n where n is the number of messages in the mailbox. A sequence may consist of a single number, a pair of numbers delimited by colon (equivalent to all numbers between those two numbers), or a list of single numbers or number pairs. For example, the sequence 2,4:7,9,12:15 is equivalent to
2,4,5,6,7,9,12,13,14,15 and identifies all those messages.
There is what I know about it. BAM!

laurent dot penou at gadz dot org (2001-08-17 12:28:42)

to complete the previous example, if the mbox/folders names are
{imap.free.fr}INBOX
{imap.free.fr}INBOX/draft
{imap.free.fr}INBOX/test
and you want to copy/move from INBOX to INBOX/test this is the syntax:
$mbox = imap_open("{imap.free.fr}INBOX",$mailuser,$mailpass)
or die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error());
...
imap_mail_move($mbox,$messageset,"INBOX/test");
Hope this could help !

ian at showstar dot com (2000-01-20 18:41:08)

The syntax for the message list is defined in RFC2060
It is a string, containing a list of message numbers and ranges, separated by commas (no spaces anywhere.) For example, "1,2,5,11:15,19" would be accepted by imap_mail_copy or imap_mail_move.
A range of messages is defined as two message numbers separated by a colon (Ex. "1:10".) Also, a "*" may be used to refer to the last message in a mailbox. (Ex. "1:*" refers to all messages)
Be careful not to use the same mailbox for source and destination, especially if you expunge the mailbox immediately afterwards; the message will be copied (back over itself), flagged as deleted (by the imap_mail_move function), and then expunged.

The following code will move the messages in the $msg_no[] array from the folder in $mbox_name to the folder in $newmbox_name: ($mbox is an already-opened imap stream)

<?php
if ($mbox_name != $newmbox_name) {
  reset($msg_no);
  $messageset = implode (",",$msg_no);
  imap_mail_move($mbox,$messageset,$newmbox_name);
  imap_expunge($mbox);
}
?>

portico dot nospam at neverwas dot net (2000-01-11 03:17:40)

This function works, just not like everything else IMAP in PHP3... rather than feeding the server {server.ext/type:port}folder just feed it the folder's name.

matt at bonneau dot net (1999-12-20 15:49:30)

This function copies the mail and then marks the source as deleted. In order to see the changes, you must imap_expunge the source box.