Email (incoming) - add to the subject text

Pandacoder

Hi,

I need to change the subject text of incoming emails. Emails arrive into a specific (not INBOX) mailbox for sorting. I can extract all the info from the emails using imap functions without any problems, after connecting to the mailbox and parsing the structure for each message I get to the

$subject = $header->Subject;

fine.

I check if the $subject has a particular pattern (and if the sender exists in our Mysql database) and I move the email to a different mailbox depending on the pattern, but, I need to add to the subject as well eg.

$subject .= "Client from $x company";

Now I want to put the added to subject back into the email, this does not work:

$header->subject = $subject;

Does anyone know how to do this or maybe point me to a tutorial on this. Not retrieving email parts though, only setting them.

Thanks in advance.

Patrick

nemonoman

vaRiaBleS are CasE sEnsiTivE.

To read, you say:

$subject = $header->Subject;

To write, did you mean to say:

$header->Subject = $subject;

Pandacoder

I did try that, and $header["subject"] = $subject; and $header['subject'] = $subject; but nothing seems to work.

I researched and wrote a recipe in Procmail that can add to the subject using Formail and I'm starting to wonder if maybe I need to use Formail from the php code to change the subject.

Surely someone else must have had this problem. I have spent several hours now looking for a solution but it seems that all the information I can find relates to 'reading' emails and attachments.

thanks for your suggestion. I am convinced there is a way, somehow!

Patrick

... and just to be doubly sure, I have just re-tried all the options using the case sensitive 'Subject' but no luck 🙁

nemonoman

Check your permissions on the mailbox directory. It might be set to prevent your writing. For testing purposes set to 777

Pandacoder

Thanks.

Just to illustrate my whole setup so you can see all. I have a Procmail recipe that diverts all incoming mail for this user to a mailbox - 'INBOX-processing'.

This script connects to the mailbox and checks each message as I mention in my first post. The exact code for the section I have problems with is:

// get the subject
if ($header->Subject == "") {
	$subject = "No subject";
} else {
	$subject = $header->Subject;
}
// add the company name and deliver to INBOX
$add_company = "Co: $company";
$add_company .= $subject;
$subject = $add_company;
$header->Subject = $add_company;
$message_move = imap_mail_move($inbox,$msg_no,"INBOX");

INBOX-processing is chmod 777, since that is where the email is when the write process needs to take place I think that is the only file that needs 777. (I have also made the whole directory 777 as you suggest)

The script runs with no warnings or errors reported. The email is moved to the INBOX as expected and can be collected by the user with Outlook Express. The only problem is that the subject remains unchanged. 🙁

I guess I am doing something wrong here. In my experience its going to be a very simple thing too which is why I am missing it....

BTW thanks for taking an interest!

Patrick