# Counting mails in an inbox with php

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-mails-in-an-inbox-with-php/241747>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [October 17, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-mails-in-an-inbox-with-php/241747 "2007-10-17T16:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-mails-in-an-inbox-with-php/241747/1 "2007-10-17T16:41:51Z")

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Title says it all.

Any way of reading the content of a pop3 inbox (all servers passwords usernames etc is given ofc) through php?

Basically I just want to count the amount of mails that are sent to a specific address.

Thanks guys.