Gmail - Message Number out of range

Hello,

I am attempting to use the mime_parser and conjunction with the pop3 class, so that I can save all attachments from all unread emails (More than 20 attachments at a time).

I'm currently fetching all the message IDs from Gmail using ListMessages. And for every message ID, I call this:

pop3://user:password@pop.gmail.com:995/$MessageId?tls=1&debug=1&html_debug=0

This works for the first few messages but it breaks after a certain number of messages by giving me the error:

Could not retrieve the message: Message number out of range.
Segmentation fault

I echo'ed out the messageID together with the error message, the ID is the same as the one obtained using ListMesssages.

I have the rerun the script a couple of times to get all the attachments. Any idea why?

That suggests that the messages are being deleted or moved to another mailbox.

When you want to process many messages at once, I suggest that you do it all in a single connection.

In that case it is not possible to use the pop3:// stream handler. You need to use the OpenMessage and GetMessage class functions instead.

Thanks for the help. I changed the code to use OpenMessage and then GetMessage, it works great now and decodes all attachments. It's faster too.

Sorry I'm resurrecting this thread but what did you change the code to? I am having the same problem.

Nowadays it is no longer necessary to use the OpenMessage and GetMessage functions directly. Just use the pop3:// stream handler class provided with the POP3 class to pass a stream file name for a given message to the MIME parser class as if it was an actual file.

I'm still getting the S -ERR Message number out of range. error when connecting to the gmail server

Wow I just got the streaming working!

It's amazing, the trick is to look at the browse_mailbox.php sample

It doesn't look like RSET works after you stream the message.

You just get it once