MIME Handling

Anon

Hi People,

Well I was wondering if you have had luck using MIME features in PHP, and that could you write an article on it, maybe on phpbuilder.com, it'll help a lot of people that way.

I can't seem to figure out, how can i read an email and download attachments from it.
Secondly how to upload them and lastly how to read and send packets, as in from a server, raw data.

Thanks alot.

Anon

There are 2 very good classes to use MIME in PHP, at http://www.wrox.com

Find Wrox's Professional PHP Programming source codes and download zipped file.

What you are looking for is smtp_class.inc and mime_class.inc

If you can't find them, send me an e-mail and i'll send you.

Anon

smtp_class.inc and mime_class.inc handle MIME encoding. Is anyone aware of a MIME DEcoding class for PHP?

Anon

You can use internal PHP functions:

imap_base64()
imap_8bit()

Anon

Are there any functions to process email bodies with MIME parts directly? Basically, something that could take a sendmail /var/spool/mail/user entry and separate all attachments (if there are any) so I could then use imap_base64() on appropriate parts.

Maybe a good PHP based email client would be a good example. I am using IMP, but that gets mail through IMAP and not local files. So the processing isn't the same.

-matthew

Serdar Soydemir wrote:

You can use internal PHP functions:

imap_base64()
imap_8bit()

Anon

Would you please tell me the name (or URL) of the zipped file.

I downloaded `2963.zip' from
Professional PHP Programming page, but {smtp|mime}_class.inc were not included..

Anon

I've got exactly the same problem, I use the wrox MIME and SMTP classes to send out mail but I want to write a pipe function to handle an inbound mail message.

I'm writing a helpdesk application which will give ticket numbers to users, however, it's not really pheasible (or practical) to ask them to send in plain text as they are just not technically sufficient in experience to do this and would end up phoning me which defeats the object of what I want to do.

I can process the header of the message but need someway to break up into seperate (either array or object) elements all the different encoded parts, I only want to extract the plain text part which exists even if you send as HTML.

Can anyone help?

James

Anon

The header contains a line specifying "Boundary:". The value for boundary, defines where each new mime part starts. You can use this to work it out!

Anon

Hi !

Come on , please , send some source code.. I don't manage to decode mails using imap_base64.
I only want to decode or cut the mime parts to only get the text from the message.
If it's possible , I would also find helpfull some sources to decode file attachments...

Thank you !