Parse Email Message

[doni49]

I've been searching for the past 2 hours for this and I can't find it.  I'm trying to figure out how to parse email messages in PHP.

 

I'm piping an email address to a PHP script.  I've got it so that it recieves the messages in their entirety.  But I'm having an impossible time figuring out how to break it down in to the headers, body and attachment(s).

 

Here's a sample of what my script sees when it runs (this is all in one variable).

 

Thanks!

 

From listservName-return-49832-myemail=mydomain.com@listservDomain.net Sun Feb 18 01:29:34 2007

Received: from [207.7.198.3] (helo=richard2.listservDomain.net)

by server125.chihost.com with smtp (Exim 4.63)

(envelope-from <listservName-return-49832-myemail=mydomain.com@listservDomain.net>)

id 1HIgUe-0004e8-R5

for [email protected]; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:29:33 -0600

Received: (qmail 22925 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2007 07:30:33 -0000

Mailing-List: contact [email protected]; run by ezmlm

Reply-To: listservName <[email protected]>

Precedence: bulk

X-No-Archive: yes

list-help: <mailto:[email protected]>

list-unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]>

list-post: <mailto:[email protected]>

Delivered-To: mailing list [email protected]

Received: (qmail 22914 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2007 07:30:33 -0000

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on mail.listservDomain.net

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_95,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,

USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO autolearn=no version=3.1.7

X-Spam-Level:

Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:30:17 -0500

From: Don lastName <[email protected]>

User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207)

MIME-Version: 1.0

To: listservName <[email protected]>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Subject: Test--Please disregard

 

Please disregard this message--I've been having email troubles and I'm

trying to troubleshoot.

 

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[kenrbnsn]

This is code I found a few years ago:

<?php
$hMail=fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email="";
while (!feof($hMail)) $email.=fread($hMail, 1024);
fclose($hMail);
// handle email
$lines = explode("\n", $email);

// empty vars
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$body = array();
$splittingheaders = true;
for ($i=0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
    if ($splittingheaders) {
        // this is a header
        $headers .= $lines[$i]."\n";

        // look out for special headers
        if (preg_match("/^Subject: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $subject = $matches[1];
    $body[] = 'Subject: ' . $subject;
        }
        if (preg_match("/^From: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $from = $matches[1];
    $body[] = 'From: ' . $from;
        }
    } else {
        // not a header, but message
        $message .= $lines[$i]."\n";
    }

    if (trim($lines[$i])=="") {
        // empty line, header section has ended
        $splittingheaders = false;
    }
}
?>

 

It should give you enough to work with.

 

Ken

[superuser2]

Thanks. That should be useful for me, as well.