Re: Handling Incoming Email Attachments

Hello, on 05/06/2008 06:36 AM Nirmal Jayasinghe said the following: > hello all, > > I'm trying to figure out a way to manipulate incoming email attachments with > PHP. There'll be a special email address to which the emails with the > attachments would be sent, with a number specified in the subject line. What > I need to do is to grab the attachment (a photo), rename it with the number > specified in the subject line, and move it onto a specific folder on the Web > server [which will be running LAMP]. > > I couldn't find any online material describing how to manipulate incoming > mail attachments. Can someone give an idea? You may want to try this MIME parser class. It can parse the e-mail messages of any size and optionally save the attachments to files in a directory of your choice. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser If want to parse messages retrieved from a POP3 mailbox, you may also want to use in conjunction this POP3 class which comes with a stream wrapper that lets you access messages in the POP3 mailbox as if they were files. You can use file names like this: pop3://pop.server.com/1 . http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class When used in conjunction, these two classes allow you to extract attachements from messages of any size without exceeding your PHP memory limits. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP professionals looking for PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/professionals/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/