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costa
costa

Reputation: 1087

Imap_search very slow

I'm using the imap_search to get a list of messages from my INBOX. I want only the emails sent from the address, lets say "[email protected]".

I'm doing like:

$headers = imap_search($box,'FROM "[email protected]"', SE_UID);

But this takes so many time, around 3 minutes and the inbox have only 700 emails (my box is GMAIL). The problem is not from the server, because i installed roundcube in the localhost and loads the emails quickly.

What can i do to make it faster?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2085

Answers (1)

dataskills
dataskills

Reputation: 656

This method has worked faster than imap_search for me in the past:

$stream = imap_open($mailbox,$username,$password);

//imap_num_msg returns the number of messages in the current mailbox, as an integer, so ..
$total_messages = imap_num_msg($stream);

for ($message_number = 0; $message_number < $total_messages; $message_number++)
{
  //get header
  $header = imap_header($stream, $message_number);

  if ($header === NULL)
  continue;

  //check from
  if($header->from == '[email protected]')
  {
    // you found one so do something
  }
}

Upvotes: 2

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