Hi All i wish to create email in the inbox flder or any folder then move it to inbox as a new message using IMAP , i dont wish to send it to the mail account as the ISP is limiting the amount of message sent out Can this be done i have found this code but it dose not create the email $stream = imap_open('{mail.mydomain.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX', "email@mydomain.com", "xxxxx"); $check = imap_check($stream); echo "Msg Count before append: ". $check->Nmsgs . "\n"; print_r (imap_list()); imap_append($stream, "{mail.mydomain.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX" , "From: \r\n" . "To: \r\n" . "Subject: test\r\n" . "\r\n" . "this is a test message, please ignore\r\n" ); print_r(imap_errors()); $check = imap_check($stream); echo "Msg Count after append : ". $check->Nmsgs . "\n"; imap_close($stream);