Parsing Emails

[Anon]

I've been stucked with this prob for 2 weeks so any help would be much appreciated!

What I'm doing is piping all emails incoming to a script. The script will parse the headers and determine who, the email is intended "for." After it parses, it inserts the info into a SQL table to be retrieved later.

I have it parsing the TO: headers fine, but since BCC based emails will obscure who the intended recipient is, the only way I can see is parse the RECIEVED: header. So what I'm trying todo is get the email, [e-mail] from an example line such as this:

Received: from hotmail.com (f119.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.119])
by ns.mycool.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f632XYa33041
for <[e-mail]>; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:33:34 -0400 (EDT)

How would I go about doing this? Thanks in advance.

[cvincent]

Seek imap_rfc882_parse_headers(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-rfc822-parse-headers.php

Its has "imap" in the function but dont be scared off by it, it doesnt require an IMAP server. The object that it returns is the exact same object returned by imap_headerinfo (http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-headerinfo.php).

-Chris

[Anon]

Could you show me an example of how to utilize this function. I'm not too familar with using functions that results in objects. The documentation on this function doesn't give any examples to show how to use it either.

[cvincent]

I have not tested this, im just taking a stab at this. I dont have PHP supporting this function right now.

// assume that $headers is a string that has
// the original email headers in it
$headerInfo = imap_rfc882_parse_headers($headers);
$to = $headerInfo->to;
print("<pre>");
print_r($to);