Retrieve mails up to a specific date from IMAP using Zend - zend-framework

Question

I am using Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap library to retrieve e-mails from IMAP.
$mail = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap(array('connection details'));
foreach($mail as $message)
{
if($message->date > $myDesiredDate)
{
//do stuff
}else{
continue;
}
This code retrieves all the mails with the oldest mail retrieved first. The variable $myDesiredDate is the date/time, mails beyond which are not needed. Is there a way to skip the retrieval of all the mails and check each mail's date one by one? If not, can I reverse the $mail object to get the latest email at the top ?
UPDATE: I have now modified the code a little, to start from the latest mail and checking the date time of the current mail. The moment I encounter an email with the time beyond which I don't want to parse emails, I break the loop.
//time upto which I want to fetch emails (in seconds from current time)
$time = 3600;
$mail = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap(array('connection details'));
//get total number of messages
$total = $mail->countMessages()
//loop through the mails, starting from the latest mail
while($total>0)
{
$mailTime = strtotime(substr($mail->getMessage($total)->date,0,strlen($mail->getMessage($total)->date)-6));
//check if the email was received before the time limit
if($mailTime < (time()-$time))
break;
else
//do my thing
$total--;
}
//close mail connection
$mail->close();
The only thing that I am concerned here is, whether I shall get the mails in the correct order or not, if I start from mail count to 0 ?

Answer 1

Since, my code is working absolutely fine, I shall include this as an answer (quick and dirty).I now start from the latest mail and check the date time of the current mail. The moment I encounter an email with the time beyond which I don't want to parse emails, I break the loop.
//time upto which I want to fetch emails (in seconds from current time)
$time = 3600;
$mail = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap(array('connection details'));
//get total number of messages
$total = $mail->countMessages()
//loop through the mails, starting from the latest mail
while($total>0)
{
$mailTime = strtotime(substr($mail->getMessage($total)->date,0,strlen($mail->getMessage($total)->date)-6));
//check if the email was received before the time limit
if($mailTime < (time()-$time))
break;
else
//do my thing
$total--;
}
//close mail connection
$mail->close();