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This little snippet of code does amazing things!

Using imap_open, you can display your unread email count from your googlemail (or any pop/imap server). I used it for my status board, and it works a treat.

$mbox = imap_open ("{imap.googlemail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX",
"gmailusername", "gmailpassword", OP_READONLY)
or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
$check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
if ($check) {
print $check->Unread; //. "/" . $check->Nmsgs;
} else {
print "Failed";
}

Just a couple of things to note:

• novalidate-cert – This is important for Google Mail, otherwise you will get authentication failures
• Make sure you have php5-imap installed. [sudo apt-get install php5-imap ; /etc/init.d/apache2 restart]