read an email with php

1<?php
2//Modify it for your project
3class Email_reader {
4
5	// imap server connection
6	public $conn;
7
8	// inbox storage and inbox message count
9	private $inbox;
10	private $msg_cnt;
11
12	// email login credentials
13	private $server = 'yourserver.com';
14	private $user   = 'email@yourserver.com';
15	private $pass   = 'yourpassword';
16	private $port   = 143; // adjust according to server settings
17
18	// connect to the server and get the inbox emails
19	function __construct() {
20		$this->connect();
21		$this->inbox();
22	}
23
24	// close the server connection
25	function close() {
26		$this->inbox = array();
27		$this->msg_cnt = 0;
28
29		imap_close($this->conn);
30	}
31
32	// open the server connection
33	// the imap_open function parameters will need to be changed for the particular server
34	// these are laid out to connect to a Dreamhost IMAP server
35	function connect() {
36		$this->conn = imap_open('{'.$this->server.'/notls}', $this->user, $this->pass);
37	}
38
39	// move the message to a new folder
40	function move($msg_index, $folder='INBOX.Processed') {
41		// move on server
42		imap_mail_move($this->conn, $msg_index, $folder);
43		imap_expunge($this->conn);
44
45		// re-read the inbox
46		$this->inbox();
47	}
48
49	// get a specific message (1 = first email, 2 = second email, etc.)
50	function get($msg_index=NULL) {
51		if (count($this->inbox) <= 0) {
52			return array();
53		}
54		elseif ( ! is_null($msg_index) && isset($this->inbox[$msg_index])) {
55			return $this->inbox[$msg_index];
56		}
57
58		return $this->inbox[0];
59	}
60
61	// read the inbox
62	function inbox() {
63		$this->msg_cnt = imap_num_msg($this->conn);
64
65		$in = array();
66		for($i = 1; $i <= $this->msg_cnt; $i++) {
67			$in[] = array(
68				'index'     => $i,
69				'header'    => imap_headerinfo($this->conn, $i),
70				'body'      => imap_body($this->conn, $i),
71				'structure' => imap_fetchstructure($this->conn, $i)
72			);
73		}
74
75		$this->inbox = $in;
76	}
77
78}
79
80?>
81A fair amount of this is 

1<?php
2    ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 );
3    error_reporting( E_ALL );
4    $from = "test@hostinger-tutorials.com";
5    $to = "test@hostinger.com";
6    $subject = "Checking PHP mail";
7    $message = "PHP mail works just fine";
8    $headers = "From:" . $from;
9    if(mail($to,$subject,$message, $headers)) {
10		echo "The email message was sent.";
11    } else {
12    	echo "The email message was not sent.";
13    }
14    ?>

1//docs
2https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
3
4https://garrettstjohn.com/articles/reading-email-php/