PHP extracting body and attachments from piped email

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PHP extracting body and attachments from piped email

I understand there are php IMAP functions to extract certain elements from an email stored in a mailbox. What I am trying to discover is whether this can translate to emails piped to a script.

The scripts that I have looked at for extracting the body and attachments are fairly inflexible and bulky. I sent my pipe script a variety of different email formats and it saved them in vastly different ways which makes me wary of starting to write a script myself.

Also as some of the emails sent from my work address attach a signature. Does anyone have any ideas how to combat this. I have a bunch of rather daft people who won't even understand the term 'don't add a signature when sending this email', or 'send in plain text only'.

AFAIK, the format for storing messages is not defined by any RFC however deliver, procmail and .forward all rely on the the headers being seperated from the body by a blank line.

symcbean 2010-01-27 13:55:01

Cheers. I am actually looking at exploding the content around a commonly uniform character. If we're looking at line breaks, how would one differentiate between paragraphs.

kalpaitch 2010-01-27 22:07:45

I didn't mean to imply that there won't be blank lines **before** the header, nor that there won't be blank lines **within** the body - only that there are no blank lines within the header, and at least one between headers and body.

symcbean 2010-01-28 13:54:55

I've successfully piped my emails to a script. Have you gotten anywhere on extracting attachments?

st4ck0v3rfl0w 2010-02-21 20:19:17

I am going to assume the data you want out of attachments is images. In my case that is the only useful part of an attahcment that I might want to keep. I am planning on exploding the contents of the email and extracting the encoded image part - then use the php base64_decode() function. I will let you know more when I think about it again. It is not on my list of priorities right now.

kalpaitch 2010-02-27 20:18:29

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