Description:
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this is a script to connect to a pop3 server and parse emails.

$connection = fsockopen($popServer, $port, $error ,$string ,$timeout);
	$response = fgets($connection, $buffer);
	$newLine = "\r\n";
	$localhost = "www.designknights.com";
	if(empty($connection))	{
	   echo "Failed to connect: $response";
	   exit;
	}
	else {
	   $logArray['connection'] = "Connected to: $response";
	}
	echo "sending username<br>";
	ob_flush();
	flush();
	fputs($connection, "USER $username". $newLine);
	$response = fgets($connection, $buffer);
	$logArray['userresponse'] = "$response";
	fputs($connection, "PASS $password". $newLine);
	$response = fgets($connection, $buffer);
	$logArray['passresponse'] = "$response";
	if (substr($response,0,3)!="+OK"){
		echo "Mail server said: ".$response;
		exit;
	}
	fputs($connection,"LIST".$newLine);
	$msg_array = array();
	$response = fgets($connection,$buffer);
	$logArray['listresponse'] = "$response";
   	$messages = explode(" ",$response);
	$nummessages = $messages['1'];
	echo "number of messages =".$nummessages;
	stream_set_blocking($connection,1);
	for ($i=1;$i<=$nummessages;$i++){
		fputs($connection,"retr ".$i.$newLine,$buffer);
		$message = '';
		$line = '';

//This loop is where it hangs
          
               while (!feof($connection){
			$line = fgets($connection,$buffer);
        	        echo "<br> line = $line";
			ob_flush();
			flush();
			
		}
		$message_blown = explode(":",$message);
		echo "<br> message $i = <br>";
		print_r($message_blown);
	} 		
	echo "return = ".print_r($messages)."<br>";
	print_r($logArray);
	fclose($connection);

Reproduce code:
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See above

Expected result:
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It should to my understanding put the lines into the var names $message then explode that message into $message_blown using : as a separator. 

Actual result:
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it hangs and the max execution time kills php5 while running the script.