Email Piping : class or tutorial? : Multi-part issues & mail delivery issues..

[listenmirndt]

I am trying to deal with multipart email's & having not much success, wonder if anyone can reccommend a good class or tutorial or advice?

I am using the following :

$fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email = "";
while (!feof($fd)) {
        $email .= fread($fd, 1024);
}
fclose($fd);

$lines = explode("\n", $email);
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$splittingheaders = true;

for ($i=0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
        if ($splittingheaders) {
                $headers .= $lines[$i]."\n";

            if (preg_match("/^Subject: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches))
            $subject = $matches[1];

            if (preg_match("/^From: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches))
            $from = $matches[1];

            if (preg_match("/^To: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches))
            $to = $matches[1];

    } else
            $message .= $lines[$i]."\n";

    if (trim($lines[$i])=="")
            $splittingheaders = false;
}

Ideally, I would like to filter out quoted text & sort thru multipart messages, saving only the plain text body... (the rest works great).

I have been at this for days without success, any help would be much appreciated!

Also I have setup a forwarder to :
|php -q /home/user/public_html/myscript/pipe.php

Which works great! The email goes into my database, etc no problem... but it also send the sending email address an undeliverabe as well each time.. which is strange : as follows :

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 pipe to |"/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/user/public_html/myscript/pipe.php"
   generated by [e-mail]
   local delivery failed

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

etc........