How to get mail date using php imap

To get the date of a mail using PHP and IMAP, you can use the imap_fetchheader function to retrieve the email headers, and then parse the Date header to get the date of the email.

Here is an example code snippet:

<?php

// Connect to the IMAP server
$imap = imap_open("{imap.example.com}", "username", "password") or die("Cannot connect to the IMAP server");

// Search for the email
$search = imap_search($imap, "ALL");

// Loop through the search results
foreach ($search as $msgno) {
    // Fetch the email headers
    $headers = imap_fetchheader($imap, $msgno);

    // Parse the Date header
    $date = imap_rfc822_parse_headers($headers);
    $email_date = $date['date'];

    // Print the email date
    echo "Email date: $email_date\n";
}

// Close the IMAP connection
imap_close($imap);

?>

This code connects to an IMAP server, searches for all emails, loops through the search results, fetches the email headers, parses the Date header using imap_rfc822_parse_headers, and prints the email date.

Note that the imap_rfc822_parse_headers function returns an array with several elements, including date, which contains the date of the email in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

Alternatively, you can use the imap_headerinfo function to get the email headers and then extract the Date header:

<?php

//...

foreach ($search as $msgno) {
    // Fetch the email headers
    $headers = imap_headerinfo($imap, $msgno);

    // Get the Date header
    $date = $headers->date;

    // Print the email date
    echo "Email date: $date\n";
}

//...

This code uses the imap_headerinfo function to get the email headers, and then extracts the Date header from the returned object.

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