imap_append

[Anon]

Hi all,

Doing a small webmail app, and would like copies of outgoing mail to be stored in my sent-mail folder, like with any other mail client. To this end, I have the following bit of code:

if (imap_mail($to, $subject, $body, $additional_headers, $cc, $bcc)) {
$imap_stream = imap_open('{'.$mailhost.'}'.$sentfolder, $username, $password);
imap_append($imap_stream, '{'.$mailhost.'}'.$sentfolder, $message);
echo('<p><center>Message sent.</center></p>');
} else {
$imap_stream = imap_open('{'.$mailhost.'}'.$draftsfolder, $username, $password);
imap_append($imap_stream, '{'.$mailhost.'}'.$draftsfolder, $message);
echo('<p><center><font color="red">Error sending message. Message saved in '.str_replace($prefix, '', $draftsfolder).' folder.</font></center></p>');
}

what happens is that a message is indeed sent, but in fact all the headers (from, to, etc) are left blank, and are actually present in the body of the message. That's not quite right...

Anybody implemented sent-mail appends? How?

[sridhar]

Hmm,

I've never used the PHP imap support, but when I was working with IMAP w/ Perl, I HAD to put the From:[e-mail]\r\n in the beginning of the message.

Here is the only thing I'm able to suggest:
1) make sure the message begins with the From header, then To, then etc.
2) Make sure you have \r\n (both carraige return and line feed) characters.
3) After your last header, include two sets of \r\n.

So a sample message I tested with under my Perl is:

$msg = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";
$msg .= "To: [e-mail]\r\n";
$msg .= "Subject: Hello\r\n";
$msg .= "\r\n";
$msg .= "This is the message\r\n";
$msg .= "This is another line\r\n";

-sridhar