note 83366 added to function.imap-fetchbody

I found the comments below very useful in learning about accessing mailboxes. In particular, I wanted to capture an attachment (text file) from an e-mail. The examples below which use "munpack" were perfect except that for some reason my shared hosing account at hostgator.com does not allow us to use "munpoack" only with a dedicated server. After looking at the examples from below, I wasn't able to easily figure out how to save the parts of an e-mail and extract the text file attachment as a file. I did end up finding a great PHP MIME parsing class which essentially does what "munpack" does but using PHP code. The class can be found here: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3169.html The code below modifies the writeAttachmentsToDisk function as follows: <?php require_once('mimeparser/rfc822_addresses.php'); require_once('mimeparser/mime_parser.php'); function writeAttachmentsToDisk($mailbox, $msg_number) { $returnResult = "OK"; $message_file = "tmp.eml"; // write the message body to disk (eml format) imap_savebody($mailbox, $message_file, $msg_number); $mime=new mime_parser_class; /* * Set to 0 for parsing a single message file * Set to 1 for parsing multiple messages in a single file in the mbox format */ $mime->mbox = 0; /* * Set to 0 for not decoding the message bodies */ $mime->decode_bodies = 1; /* * Set to 0 to make syntax errors make the decoding fail */ $mime->ignore_syntax_errors = 0; $parameters=array( 'File'=>$message_file, /* Save the message body parts to a directory */ 'SaveBody'=>'', ); if(!$mime->Decode($parameters, $decoded)) { $returnResult = 'MIME message decoding error: '.$mime->error.' at position '.$mime->error_position; } return $returnResult; } ?> We're using this on http://www.spellingcity.com, it is working great. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 74.164.110.127 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetchbody.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/83366 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83366 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/83366 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php