imap_delete

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imap_deleteMark a message for deletion from current mailbox

Description

bool imap_delete ( resource $imap_stream , int $msg_number [, int $options = 0 ] )

Marks messages listed in msg_number for deletion. Messages marked for deletion will stay in the mailbox until either imap_expunge() is called or imap_close() is called with the optional parameter CL_EXPUNGE.

Parameters

imap_stream

An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

msg_number

The message number

options

You can set the FT_UID which tells the function to treat the msg_number argument as an UID.

Return Values

Returns TRUE.

Examples

Example #1 imap_delete() example

<?php

$mbox 
imap_open("{imap.example.org}INBOX""username""password")
    or die(
"Can't connect: " imap_last_error());

$check imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
echo 
"Messages before delete: " $check->Nmsgs "<br />\n";

imap_delete($mbox1);

$check imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
echo 
"Messages after  delete: " $check->Nmsgs "<br />\n";

imap_expunge($mbox);

$check imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
echo 
"Messages after expunge: " $check->Nmsgs "<br />\n";

imap_close($mbox);
?>

Notes

Note:

IMAP mailboxes may not have their message flags saved between connections, so imap_expunge() should be called during the same connection in order to guarantee that messages marked for deletion will actually be purged.

See Also

Коментарии

Автор:
I had some major issues deleting emails using this function.  Using IIS 5.0 and a win based Mail Server, I could not delete the emails individually.

My script merely needed to check the emails and update the database for bounce backs, after which I simply wanted to erase all emails.

If imap_delete($mbox,$email->MsgNo) just isnt working for you, you can try using

    imap_delete($mbox,'1:*');

to clear out an entire mailbox.

Hope this helps cause it drove me insane for about 5 hours.  :)
2003-04-10 00:05:20
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// is not a complete code but enough to clear out an entire mailbox.
// hope this can save your time :-)

<?php

if (isset($_REQUEST['DoNow'])) 
{
 
# PULL ADDITIONAL FILES
 
include_once ("common.php");
 
 
$conn = @imap_open("\{$server/$serverType}Trash"$user$pass
  or die(
"Connection to folder failed");
 
 
$headers = @imap_check($conn);
  (
$headers->Nmsgs 0) or die("Trash is empty already !");
 
 
// delete email(s)
 
@imap_delete($conn,'1:*');   // to clear out an entire mailbox.
 
@imap_expunge($conn);
  echo 
"Trash is empty."
 
 
imap_close($conn);

else
{
  echo 
"<form name='formA' action='".$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']."' method='POST'>"?>
  Are you sure to empty trash ?
  <p>
  <input type="submit" value="Go Ahead" name="DoNow">&nbsp;
  <input type="button" value="Cancel" name="Cancel" onClick='javascript:self.history.go(-1)'></form></p>
<?php
?>
2003-11-09 15:42:16
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
Somehow, when ever I try to delete an email using the message number returned by imap_header, any email with a message number below 999 will fail.

I discovered that the imap_header will pad the message number with spaces. You will need to trim the number before calling imap_delete.

I am using qmail and it took me over a month to figure it out.

Hope this will be helpful to some poor soul out there facing the same problem.
2009-01-12 03:40:02
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
After a little experimentation i found out how to mark a single message for deletion...

<?php

$msgid 
'5'//For example

imap_delete($mbox"$msgid:$msgid");

?>

imap_delete() seems to want a range, so to select one, simply range from your id to your id.

Hope this helps.
2009-01-28 17:54:33
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
Автор:
I think you don't have to give a range to imap_delete() if you want to delete a single one. 

This works well:

<?php

imap_delete
($conn,trim($msgno));   

?>
2009-04-23 15:00:42
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
In case you feel the need to kill all emails from before a certain year on your Gmail account, this would work:

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL ^ (E_NOTICE E_WARNING));

echo 
"parsing ini file...\n";
$ini parse_ini_file('g.ini');
$user $ini['user'];
$pass $ini['pass'];
$year $ini['year'];
echo 
"account {$user} - killing msgs from before {$year}\n\n";

echo 
"connecting...\n";
$imap imap_open("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}[Gmail]/All Mail"$user$pass) or die("can't connect: " imap_last_error() . "\n");

echo 
"checking current mailbox...\n";
$mbox imap_check($imap);

echo 
"fetching overview...\n";
$flaggedForDelete 0;
for(
$n 0$n $mbox->Nmsgs$n++) {
    echo 
"processing {$n} of {$mbox->Nmsgs}...\r";
   
$hdr imap_fetchheader($imap$n);
   
preg_match('/^Date: (.*?)$/m'$hdr$matches);
   
$date date_parse(strtotime($matches[1]));
    if(
$date['year'] < $year) {
       
imap_delete($imap$msg->msgno);
       
$flaggedForDelete++;
    }
}

echo 
"expunging mailbox ({$flaggedForDelete} messages flagged)... ";
echo ((
imap_expunge($imap)) ? "ok" "failed!")."\n";
imap_close($imap);

?>
2009-09-23 13:48:18
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
Автор:
I couldn't get imap_delete to work when I used it with pop3. Instead i wrote:
<?php
function pop3_dele($connection,$message)
{
   
$status imap_setflag_full($connection'1:'.$message'\\Deleted');
   
imap_expunge($connection);
    return 
$status;

   
//return(imap_delete($connection,trim($message)));
}
?>
2012-11-01 09:46:47
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
Автор:
the function is using the message number (and not the uid !)
$uid = $mail->uid; 
$msgno = $mail->msgno;

if you want to use the uid, simply option value
imap_delete($mbox, $uid, FT_UID);
2013-03-25 04:26:26
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
This function seems not to work on "[Gmail]/All Mail" mailbox. This is because Gmails keeps only one copy of the message and mailboxes are no more than labels. 
Deleting a message from a mailbox only removes that label (except for "All Mail" mailbox).
To delete from "All Mail" you have to use imap_mail_move() function and move the message to "[Gmail]/Trash" mailbox.
 
Note: Names of mailboxes in Gmail depends on the language you're using.  E.g.: in Spanish "All Mail" is "Todos" and "Trash" is "Papelera".
2013-12-05 04:22:21
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.imap-delete.html
Автор:
Just so anyone using this function is aware: if you mark an email to be deleted from a mailbox, that flag does not persist. You need to call imap_expunge() or use the  CL_EXPUNGE option with imap_close() to remove the marked email in the same PHP script you marked it in.

I hope this helps someone out.
2016-03-04 01:24:10
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