On Sat, December 16, 2006 4:02 am, Jochem Maas wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> I'm having trouble with Windows imap_open. >> >> I have the exact same mbox on a Linux box, with the exact same PHP >> code opening it just fine. >> >> I FTP (binary) to the Windows box (and a second time to be sure it >> wasn't an FTP flake-out). >> >> Opening the mbox in Windows yields a message like: >> PHP Notice: >> Unknown: >> C:\\data\\mbox.excerpt (file C:\\data\\mbox.excerpt) is not in valid >> mailbox format (errflg=2) > > LONG SHOT: the path is freaking imap_open out - maybe it can be > tricked > by using a path like so '/data/mbox.excerpt' (which windows should > swallow - > although it assumes C: is the default drive [I think])
Tried that. Would never have expected C: to be a default, but shows what I know. Didn't help. > other than that I can only think to switch the line-endings in the > mbox file > (at least to rule out the line ending as the problem)?! Linux is happy to take either line-ending. Windows just plain doesn't work. :-v >> Can somebody point me to anything that would de-mystify (errflg = 2) >> in the error message? >> Obviously that '2' has SOME kind of meaning, but is that from PHP, >> IMAP, Windows OS, File System, ...? > > I think the errflg is coming from IMAP ... I have found several bits > of C code related to IMAP (and seemingly nothing to do with php) > that reference 'errflg' - I have also found > that a value of 2 for errflg can mean anything from 'invalid mbox > format' > to 'authentication failed' (not very helpful!) > > what do these functions return for you?: > > imap_errors(), imap_alerts(), imap_last_error() imap_errors(): Can't open mailbox C:/www/complaints.com/data/testunix.mbox: no such mailbox HTTP Error Log: Couldn't open stream C:/www/complaints.com/data/testdos.mbox in C:\\www\\complaints.com\\imap_bug.php on line 9 Unknown: Can't open mailbox C:/www/complaints.com/dat a/testdos.mbox: no such mailbox (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39880 Looks like it's time to just dual boot and abandon Windows. (again). :-v -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
