All works except querying for specific message.

[klukiyan]

This works:

$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->limit(10, 2)->get();

This refuses to work:

$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->text("whatever")->get();
$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->Subject("whatever")->get();
$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->Subject("whatever")->get();
$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->from('[email protected]')->get();
$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->unseen()->limit(10, 2)->get();

all the time getting empty arrays...
Any help please?
I'm using the "facade approach"

...
use Webklex\IMAP\Facades\Client;
...
$oClient = Client::account('default');
        $oClient->connect();
...

[Webklex]

Hi @klukiyan ,
just a basic question before I dive in deeper. Is there an email with the text "whatever" or the subject "whatever" or any unseen emails available? Might sound stupid, but I encountered a simular issue before ;)

Besides that your code looks fine (ecept WhereQuery::Subject() - this should be WhereQuery::subject()) to me.

Best regards

[klukiyan]

@Webklex
I have it with "Electra" in subject, and yes the folder contains it.

$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->subject('Electra')->limit(10, 2)->get();

empty array...
the querying simply doesn't seem to work.

I've just tried pure PHP and it returned me 3 messages. Something must be really wrong with query().
This returned me 3 messages:

        $imapEmails   = imap_search($imapResource, 'SUBJECT "Electra"');
        $contentItems = array();
        if ($imapEmails) {
            //Put newest emails on top
            rsort($imapEmails);
            foreach ($imapEmails as $Email) {
                //Loop through each email and return the content
                $email_overview = imap_fetch_overview($imapResource, $Email, 0);
                $email_header_info = imap_header($imapResource, $Email);
                $email_message = imap_fetchbody($imapResource, $Email, 1);
                echo $email_message."<hr>";
            }
        }
        imap_close($imapResource);

Update
It's very strange, but changing $charset = 'UTF-8' to $charset = null in Folder.php resolved the issue...

[Webklex]

$aMessage = $oFolder->query()->subject('Electra')->limit(10, 2)->get();

Is reffering to a second page where each page contains 10 messages. So in order to receive any message you would habe to have at least 11 mails matching that criteria.

Please try the following:

$aMessage = $oFolder->query(null)->subject('Electra')->limit(10, 1)->get();

Note you can parse an parameter $charset to Folder::query($charset = 'UTF-8').

Please take a look at #100 a user had an simular issue. Setting $charset to null seemed to do the trick :)

[klukiyan]

@Webklex , thank you, with query(null) it wors.
My last concern is about the speed.

• With above mentioned php code I'm getting the bodies of the 3 searched messages in 2 seconds (the inbox is really huge, it is on slow distant exchange server).
• When using your package, code is simpler and shorter, but I get the response in 6-8 seconds.
  I've tried many times, the result is the same. I've tried to make the query as short as possible, it's still considerably slower.
  Can you give me a hint what I could optimize to get flawless experience for my users.
  This is the shortes option I could get:

//this gets me into 6-8 seconds.
$oClient->connect();
$aMessage = $oClient->getFolder('INBOX')->query(null)->text('Electra')->get();
foreach ($aMessage as $oMessage) {
    echo $oMessage->getHtmlBody(true);
}

I want to use your package, especially when it comes to working with attachments. But the speed is really a concern. Can you give me a hint how can I make it faster?

[Webklex]

If you want to decrease the loading time you could as well fetch bodys and attachments later.

$oFolder->query(null)->setFetchFlags(false) ->setFetchBody(false)->setFetchAttachment(false);

Your mentioned plain php code does'nt fetch all attachments, thats probably why its faster. This library also does some encoding etc which might take a few additional ms. However feel free to create a fork and remove everything you don't need - that's probably the best in order to get the most out of it :)

[klukiyan]

@Webklex That's a good hint.
Now if I don't fetch the body/flags/attachments and I want to display the body + attachments when I click on the message, how to I query directly that single message please?
Sorry if this question is too silly.

[Webklex]

There are several possibilities. Here are two examples:

https://github.com/Webklex/laravel-imap#fetch-a-specific-message

$oMessage = $oFolder->getMessage($uid = 1);

..or by token if you want to be a bit more "bullet proof", since the uid isn't always unique:
#136

[klukiyan]

Great
Thank you very much, @Webklex

[dharmendravirasat]

$oMessage = $oFolder->getMessage($uid = 1);
can't working please answer

[Webklex]

@dharmendravirasat that could be caused by a ton of things. Please provide more information and if it isn't related to this issue, please consider to open a new issue.

Best regards