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# imap_fetch_overview

(3.0.4 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

imap_fetch_overview -- Read an overview of the information in the headers of the given message

## Description

``array imap_fetch_overview` (int imap_stream, string sequence [, int flags])`

This function fetches mail headers for the given `sequence` and returns an overview of their contents. `sequence` will contain a sequence of message indices or UIDs, if `flags` contains FT_UID. The returned value is an array of objects describing one message header each:

- subject - the messages subject

- from - who sent it

- date - when was it sent

- message_id - Message-ID

- references - is a reference to this message id

- size - size in bytes

- uid - UID the message has in the mailbox

- msgno - message sequence number in the maibox

- recent - this message is flagged as recent

- flagged - this message is flagged

- answered - this message is flagged as answered

- deleted - this message is flagged for deletion

- seen - this message is flagged as already read

- draft - this message is flagged as being a draft

Example 1. imap_fetch_overview() example
    $mbox = imap_open("{your.imap.host:143}","username","password")
         or die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error());

    $overview = imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"2,4:6",0);

    if(is_array($overview)) {
            reset($overview);
            while( list($key,$val) = each($overview)) {
                    print     $val->msgno
                    . " - " . $val->date
                    . " - " . $val->subject
                    . "\n";
            }
    }

    imap_close($mbox);

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