Translating email to (real) plain text...

Hi there, I would like to ask some suggestions on my following problem: I am making a small tool which allows you to store incomming mail in a database table. This mail is then scanned on keywords etc etc and with the help of some status bits the priority is given. Via a webpage interface, people can then answer these emails... I started out by creating a extra Mailbox to which I route all the incoming mail. With the help of a Cron-Job which runs a PHP class made by Manual Lemos to retrieve POP mail I retrieve the mail and insert it into a database table (MySQL) So far so good! Only problem which I have is that some (=most) people create email with clients that output email with HTML codes (Internet Explorer for example).. I am not really interested in any attachment, pictures etc which are sent with the email, only the plain email body is important. For emails that contain HTML tags, I think that stripping the HTML tags will do enough for me.. I do though have a problem when dealing with emails in which text is Mime-encoded. The Mime_Class from Manual encodes everything for example.. Before I spend a great deal of time making some code which can decode and strip all the diferent email-client formats, isn't there a class out there which can get me the plain text email body out of a raw retrieved email..?? The Mailling-list archives of this PHP maillinglist at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general for example contains very nicely stripped emails of all the members.. Does anyone khow this is done..? Thanks in advance for any help.. With kind regards.. David Bouw PS: To give some examples of problems I see in the retrieved mail I have quoted some pieces: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ //A stripslashes will do a lot for me.. ------=_NextPart_001_0071_01C18105.33ABC800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a mail send to myself ------=_NextPart_001_0071_01C18105.33ABC800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.3314.2100" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ //I can probably us mime_decode, but I think that this will take quite some hours to code.. This is a MIME encoded message. Created by html_mime_mail.class. See http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/ for a copy. --=_7c76c35e24d83834b9c31a94ad6407ca Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="=_c15b829df5ff4f43680605bb761b564f " --=_c15b829df5ff4f43680605bb761b564f Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 PFBSRT5CZXN0ZSBQYXRyaWMgVmVyaG9ldmVuLAoKV2lqIHdpbGxlbiB1IGdyYWFnIGRlIHN0YXR1^M cyB2YW4gdXcgYmVzdGVsbGluZyBkb29yZ2V2ZW4uClV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------