PHP code to retrieve attachments from POP e-mail

[MungoBBQ]

I've found a couple of PHP classes which allows me to login to a POP account and retreieve the headers, bodies and whatnot from the account, but so far I have not found one that lets me take a binary attachment and do something with that - does anybody have code or pointers to help me along with this?

Thanks!

//Mans

[strenge]

Hello,

Just wondering if you had ever found a solution for this. I'm now facing the exact same thing!

Thanks,
Rick

[MungoBBQ]

As a matter of fact I did, here's some code for you:

$mbox = imap_open("{pop.mailserver.com:110/pop3}INBOX", "username", "password"); 
foreach (imap_headers($mbox) AS $key => $value) {
	$msgnr = eregi("N (.*)) ", $value, $rAr);
	$header = imap_headerinfo($mbox, $rAr[1]);
	$subject = $header->subject;
                $body = get_part($mbox, $rAr[1], "TEXT/PLAIN");
	$data = get_part($mbox, $rAr[1], "IMAGE/JPEG");
	if ($data) $type = ".jpg";
	if (!$data) {
		$data = get_part($mbox, $rAr[1], "IMAGE/PJPEG");
		if ($data) $type = ".jpg";
		}
	if (!$data) {
		$data = get_part($mbox, $rAr[1], "IMAGE/GIF");
		if ($data) $type = ".gif";
		}

# Save the image
$filename = "/tmp/" . rand(10000, 99999) . $type;
$fil = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fil, $data);
fclose($fil);
            imap_delete($mbox, $rAr[1]);
            }
imap_expunge($mbox);

As you may see, this loops through the mailbox, and for each iteration takes the subject into $subject, body into $body and then looks for an attachment of JPG or GIF and then saves that attachment to the /tmp folder - you can do what you want there instead of course. Then it marks the message for deletion, and after the whole looping is done it expunges the messages.

Good luck!