mailparse

[yheffen]

I want to extract the body and attachment from an email. I would expect the mailparse package to do just this, but I am having problems. The mailparse documentation, http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.mailparse.php, isn't giving me the clues that I need. I can extract the headers of the messages, but I want to extract the bodies and attachments of each MIME part, and the parts happen to pretty much all be Base64 encoded, even the body.

 

I would expect this to be a pretty common thing, but I can't find mailparse examples to do this. The big problems I'm having with the documentation is that is not clear how to tell the functions to operate on parts of a MIME message rather than the message as a whole, or how to figure out what parts a message has in the first place.

 

Anyone know of examples or can offer help? Or have recommendations for a different extension or class to use?

[trq]

I've never used nor even installed this package but going by there descriptions mailparse_msg_get_structure and mailparse_msg_get_part are surely what your looking for.

[yheffen]

Yep, I've tried to figure out how to use those to get started, but I seem to be missing the last step. The mailparse_msg_get_structure() function will correctly show the structure of my email. I can then use mailparse_msg_get_part() to zero in on the MIME section that I want... But once I get down to there, a mailparse_mail_structure resource of the piece of the email that I want, I can't figure out which function can then pull the body out of there. I can use mailparse_msg_get_part_data() to pull the header out of the section, but how do I pull out the (decoded) body?

 

Here's example code,

 

<?php

        $msg = mailparse_msg_create();

        $msg = mailparse_msg_parse_file('cattool.eml');

        $msgstruct = mailparse_msg_get_structure($msg);
        var_dump($msgstruct);

        $msgpart = mailparse_msg_get_part($msg, "1.1");
        var_dump($msgpart);

        $msgdata = mailparse_msg_get_part_data($msgpart);
        var_dump($msgdata);

?>

 

That spits out,

 

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(1) "1"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "1.1"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "1.2"
}
resource( of type (mailparse_mail_structure)
array(11) {
  ["headers"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["content-type"]=>
    string(9) "text/HTML"
    ["content-transfer-encoding"]=>
    string(6) "base64"
  }
  ["starting-pos"]=>
  int(868)
  ["starting-pos-body"]=>
  int(927)
  ["ending-pos"]=>
  int(133536)
  ["ending-pos-body"]=>
  int(133536)
  ["line-count"]=>
  int(2044)
  ["body-line-count"]=>
  int(2041)
  ["charset"]=>
  string( "us-ascii"
  ["transfer-encoding"]=>
  string(6) "base64"
  ["content-type"]=>
  string(9) "text/html"
  ["content-base"]=>
  string(1) "/"
}