Hello fellow developers,
Im currently trying to read all emails with imap. Im trying to get the header infos with imap_headerinfo and the body with imap_fetchbody. However, I get all the headerinfo but I only get an empty string as a return from the fetchbody function. I hope someone can help me
$this->inbox = imap_open($server, $user, $password);
// Header und Body der Email auslesen
$emails = imap_search($this->inbox,'ALL');
foreach($emails as $k) {
$this->email_contents[$k] = array(
'header' => imap_headerinfo($this->inbox, $k),
'body' => imap_fetchbody($this->inbox, $k, '1')
);
}
imap_close($this->inbox);
fetch_structure
object(stdClass)#65 (11) {
["type"]=>
int(1)
["encoding"]=>
int(0)
["ifsubtype"]=>
int(1)
["subtype"]=>
string(5) "MIXED"
["ifdescription"]=>
int(0)
["ifid"]=>
int(0)
["ifdisposition"]=>
int(0)
["ifdparameters"]=>
int(0)
["ifparameters"]=>
int(1)
["parameters"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#66 (2) {
["attribute"]=>
string(8) "boundary"
["value"]=>
string(36) "------------CC4C1146391EA6C129642420"
}
}
["parts"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#67 (12) {
["type"]=>
int(0)
["encoding"]=>
int(1)
["ifsubtype"]=>
int(1)
["subtype"]=>
string(5) "PLAIN"
["ifdescription"]=>
int(0)
["ifid"]=>
int(0)
["lines"]=>
int(30)
["bytes"]=>
int(590)
["ifdisposition"]=>
int(0)
["ifdparameters"]=>
int(0)
["ifparameters"]=>
int(1)
["parameters"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#68 (2) {
["attribute"]=>
string(7) "charset"
["value"]=>
string(5) "utf-8"
}
[1]=>
object(stdClass)#69 (2) {
["attribute"]=>
string(6) "format"
["value"]=>
string(6) "flowed"
}
}
}
[1]=>
object(stdClass)#70 (13) {
["type"]=>
int(5)
["encoding"]=>
int(3)
["ifsubtype"]=>
int(1)
["subtype"]=>
string(4) "JPEG"
["ifdescription"]=>
int(0)
["ifid"]=>
int(0)
["bytes"]=>
int(1036)
["ifdisposition"]=>
int(1)
["disposition"]=>
string(10) "attachment"
["ifdparameters"]=>
int(1)
["dparameters"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#71 (2) {
["attribute"]=>
string(8) "filename"
["value"]=>
string(11) "logo_sm.jpg"
}
}
["ifparameters"]=>
int(1)
["parameters"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#72 (2) {
["attribute"]=>
string(4) "name"
["value"]=>
string(11) "logo_sm.jpg"
}
}
}
}
}
imap-fetchbody() works unusually when handling attached email messages and it's behaviour is inconsistent.
I was going to re-write this but to be honest the author atamido does a fantastic job of showing why this happens so i'll humbly cite his lead comment from this:: http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetchbody.php he also includes an example of how to extract the body
imap-fetchbody() will decode attached email messages inline with the rest of the email parts, however the way it works when handling attached email messages is inconsistent with the main email message. With an email message that only has a text body and does not have any mime attachments, imap-fetchbody() will return the following for each requested part number:
(empty) - Entire message 0 - Message header 1 - Body text With an email message that is a multi-part message in MIME format, and contains the message text in plain text and HTML, and hasa file.ext attachment, imap-fetchbody() will return something like the following for each requested part number:
(empty) - Entire message 0 - Message header 1 - MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE 1.1 - TEXT/PLAIN 1.2 - TEXT/HTML 2 - file.extNow if you attach the above email to an email with the message text in plain text and HTML, imap_fetchbody() will use this type of part number system:
(empty) - Entire message 0 - Message header 1 - MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE 1.1 - TEXT/PLAIN 1.2 - TEXT/HTML 2 - MESSAGE/RFC822 (entire attached message) 2.0 - Attached message header 2.1 - TEXT/PLAIN 2.2 - TEXT/HTML 2.3 - file.extNote that the file.ext is on the same level now as the plain text and HTML, and that there is no way to access the MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE in the attached message.
Here is a modified version of some of the code from previous posts that will build an easily accessible array that includes accessible attached message parts and the message body if there aren't multipart mimes. The $structure variable is the output of the imap_fetchstructure() function. The returned $part_array has the field 'part_number' which contains the part number to be fed directly into the imap_fetchbody() function.
<?php
function create_part_array($structure, $prefix="") {
//print_r($structure);
if (sizeof($structure->parts) > 0) { // There some sub parts
foreach ($structure->parts as $count => $part) {
add_part_to_array($part, $prefix.($count+1), $part_array);
}
}else{ // Email does not have a seperate mime attachment for text
$part_array[] = array('part_number' => $prefix.'1', 'part_object' => $obj);
}
return $part_array;
}
// Sub function for create_part_array(). Only called by create_part_array() and itself.
function add_part_to_array($obj, $partno, & $part_array) {
$part_array[] = array('part_number' => $partno, 'part_object' => $obj);
if ($obj->type == 2) { // Check to see if the part is an attached email message, as in the RFC-822 type
//print_r($obj);
if (sizeof($obj->parts) > 0) { // Check to see if the email has parts
foreach ($obj->parts as $count => $part) {
// Iterate here again to compensate for the broken way that imap_fetchbody() handles attachments
if (sizeof($part->parts) > 0) {
foreach ($part->parts as $count2 => $part2) {
add_part_to_array($part2, $partno.".".($count2+1), $part_array);
}
}else{ // Attached email does not have a seperate mime attachment for text
$part_array[] = array('part_number' => $partno.'.'.($count+1), 'part_object' => $obj);
}
}
}else{ // Not sure if this is possible
$part_array[] = array('part_number' => $prefix.'.1', 'part_object' => $obj);
}
}else{ // If there are more sub-parts, expand them out.
if (sizeof($obj->parts) > 0) {
foreach ($obj->parts as $count => $p) {
add_part_to_array($p, $partno.".".($count+1), $part_array);
}
}
}
}
?>