I want to automatically process E-Mails which I get from Paypal for donations to my E-Mail-Adress. (via cronjob and php script)
So far, so good. I made a test donation and for further testing, I copy this mail with Outlook to INBOX several times.
Everything worked fine with the copied Mail (I'm checking a String in E-Mail Body)
but now I've made another test donation and it wasn't working.
It turned out that the E-Mail-Body is not parsed correctly.
I've tried already with Ararat Synapse in Delphi but same result.
The correct E-Mail Body from copied Mail looks like this:
Guten Tag Peter Meier ! Diese E-Mail bestätigt den Erhalt einer Spende über €1,50 EUR von Peter Meier (peter.meier#gmx.de ). Sie können die Transaktionsdetails online abrufen . Spendendetails Gesamtbetrag: €1,50 EUR
But the original Mail from Paypal is parsed as
PGh0bWwgPgogICA8aGVhZD4KICAgCQk8bWV0YSBodHRwLWVxdWl2PSJDb250ZW50LVR5cGUi IGNvbnRlbnQ9InRleHQvaHRtbDsgY2hhcnNldD1VVEYtOCI+CiAgIAkJPG1ldGEgbmFtZT0i dmlld3BvcnQiIGNvbnRlbnQ9ImluaXRpYWwtc2NhbGU9MS4wLG1pbmltdW0tc2NhbGU9MS4w LG1heGltdW0tc2NhbGU9MS4wLHdpZHRoPWRldmljZS13aWR0aCxoZWlnaHQ9ZGV2aWNlLWhl aWdodCx0YXJnZXQtZGVuc2l0eWRwaT1kZXZpY2UtZHBpLHVzZX...
And so on, copiedmail.html is 3KB, original is 28KB.
My Code:
$connection = imap_open("{imap.gmx.net:993/imap/ssl}", "peter.meier#gmx.de", "password"); //connect
$count = imap_num_msg($connection); //get E-Mail count in INBOX
for($msgno = 1; $msgno <= $count; $msgno++) //walk through INBOX mails
{
$headers = imap_headerinfo($connection, $msgno); //read E-Mail header
$subject = $headers->subject; //read subject
//decode subject
$elements = imap_mime_header_decode($subject);
$decodedsubject="";
for ($i=0; $i<count($elements); $i++)
{
$decodedsubject = $decodedsubject.$elements[$i]->text;
}
$body = imap_fetchbody ($connection, $msgno, 1); //read body
echo $body; <--- Here I get long cryptic Text in original Mail
}
Thanks to NineBerry,
I found out that paypal uses base64 encoding for their mails.
So the body was parsed correctly by this code
$body = imap_fetchbody ($connection, $msgno, 1); //read E-Mail-Body
$body = imap_base64($body);
echo $body;
To check encoding as suggested, you could do:
$structure = imap_fetchstructure($connection, $msgno);
$encoding = $structure->encoding;
$body = imap_fetchbody ($connection, $msgno, 1);
$body=decodebody($encoding, $body);
echo $body;
function decodebody($encoding, $body)
{
switch ($encoding)
{
# 7BIT
case ENC7BIT:
echo "7BIT<br>";//
return $body;
break;
# 8BIT
case ENC8BIT:
echo "8BIT<br>";//
return quoted_printable_decode(imap_8bit($body));
break;
# BINARY
case ENCBINARY:
echo "BINARY<br>";//
return imap_binary($body);
break;
# BASE64
case ENCBASE64:
echo "BASE64<br>";//
return imap_base64($body);
break;
# QUOTED-PRINTABLE
case ENCQUOTEDPRINTABLE:
echo "QUOTED<br>";//
return quoted_printable_decode($body);
break;
# OTHER
case ENCOTHER:
echo "OTHER<br>";//
return $body;
break;
# UNKNOWN
default:
echo "UNKNOWN<br>";//
return $body;
break;
}
}
Of course echo in function is only for you to check.
BTW, I pasted the snippet from my Original Question to this online decoder:
https://www.base64decode.org and it also worked :)
I have a sport betting tips website and on every tip that i publish i send an email to every user (about 700 users in total) with SendGrid. The problem comes with the delivery time. The email is delayed even half an hour from the time of send.
Does anyone know why and how could i fix it?
I am sending it with SMTP.
Here is some of my code:
$catre = array();
$subiect = $mailPronostic['subiect'];
$titlu = $mailPronostic['titlu'];
$text = $mailPronostic['text'];
$data = new DateTime($this->_dataPronostic);
foreach($users as $user){
array_push($catre, $user->_emailUser);
}
$data = urlencode($data->format("d-m-Y H:i"));
$echipe = urlencode($this->_gazdaPronostic." vs ".$this->_oaspetePronostic);
$pronostic = urlencode($predictii[$this->_textPronostic]);
$cota = $this->_cotaPronostic;
$mesaj = file_get_contents("http://plivetips.com/mailFiles/mailPronostic.php?text=".urlencode($text)."&titlu=".urlencode($titlu)."&data=$data&echipe=$echipe&pronostic=$pronostic&cota=$cota");
//return mail(null, $subiect, $mesaj, $header);
$from = array('staff#plivetips.com' => 'PLIVEtips');
$to = $catre;
$subject = "PLIVEtips Tip";
$username = 'user';
$password = 'pass';
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.sendgrid.net', 587);
$transport->setUsername($username);
$transport->setPassword($password);
$swift = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$message = new Swift_Message($subject);
$message->setFrom($from);
$message->setBody($mesaj, 'text/html');
$numSent = 0;
foreach ($to as $address => $name)
{
if (is_int($address)) {
$message->setTo($name);
} else {
$message->setTo(array($address => $name));
}
$numSent += $swift->send($message, $failures);
}
Thx.
how long does the script take to run? I have a feeling the script is taking a long time. If that's the case, I think it is because you are opening a connection for each message.
With SendGrid, you can send a message to 1000 recipients with one connection by using the X-SMTPAPI header to define the recipients. The easiest way to do this to use the official sendgrid-php library and use the setTos method.
Recipients added to the X-SMTPAPI header will each be sent a unique email. Basically SendGrid's servers will perform a mail merge. It doesn't look like your email content varies with each user, but if it does, then you may use substitution tags in the header to specify custom data per recipient.
If you don't want to use sendgrid-php, you can see how to build the header in this example.
I'm using pop3class for retrieving mails from pop3 server. when I call
$pop3->RetieveMessage($messageNumber,$header,$body,-1);
I receive header and body of the message in $header and $body variables.
when I
Print_r($body);
I've lot of HTML code in output. Can someone help me in which class should
I use for dealing with the received mail, because I don't know the returned
data type of the mail.
i think this link can help u in getting the incoming mails
http://ca.php.net/imap
$mb = imap_open("{host:port/imap}","username", "password" );
$messageCount = imap_num_msg($mb);
for( $MID = 1; $MID <= $messageCount; $MID++ )
{
$EmailHeaders = imap_headerinfo( $mb, $MID );
$Body = imap_fetchbody( $mb, $MID, 1 );
doSomething( $EmailHeaders, $Body );
}
I am developing a PHP application that needs to retrieve arbitrary emails from an email server. Then, the message is completely parsed and stored in a database.
Of course, I have to do a lot of tests as this task is not really trivial with all that different mail formats under the sun. Therefore I started to "collect" emails from certain clients and with different contents.
I would like to have a script so that I can send out those emails automatically to my application to test the mail handling.
Therefore, I need a way to send the raw emails - so that the structure is exactly the same as they would come from the respective client. I have the emails stored as .eml files.
Does somebody know how to send emails by supplying the raw body?
Edit:
To be more specific: I am searching for a way to send out multipart emails by using their source code. For example I would like to be able to use something like that (an email with plain and HTML part, HTML part has one inline attachment).
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
The plain text email!
--=20
=20
=20
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="text/html";
boundary=Apple-Mail-160-396126150
--Apple-Mail-160-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1
<html><head>
<title>Daisies</title>=20
</head><body style=3D"background-attachment: initial; background-origin: =
initial; background-image: =
url(cid:4BFF075A-09D1-4118-9AE5-2DA8295BDF33/bg_pattern.jpg); =
background-position: 50% 0px; ">
[ - snip - the html email content ]
</body></html>=
--Apple-Mail-160-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=bg_pattern.jpg
Content-Type: image/jpg;
x-apple-mail-type=stationery;
name="bg_pattern.jpg"
Content-Id: <4BFF075A-09D1-4118-9AE5-2DA8295BDF33/tbg.jpg>
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AARRHVja3kAAQAEAAAASAAA/+IFOElDQ19QUk9GSUxFAAEB
[ - snip - the image content ]
nU4IGsoTr47IczxmCMvPypi6XZOWKYz/AB42mcaD/9k=
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150--
Using PHPMailer, you can set the body of a message directly:
$mail->Body = 'the contents of one of your .eml files here'
If your mails contain any mime attachments, this will most likely not work properly, as some of the MIME stuff has to go into the mail's headers. You'd have to massage the .eml to extract those particular headers and add them to the PHPMailer mail as a customheader
You could just use the telnet program to send those emails:
$ telnet <host> <port> // execute telnet
HELO my.domain.com // enter HELO command
MAIL FROM: sender#address.com // enter MAIL FROM command
RCPT TO: recipient#address.com // enter RCPT TO command
<past here, without adding a newline> // enter the raw content of the message
[ctrl]+d // hit [ctrl] and d simultaneously to end the message
If you really want to do this in PHP, you can use fsockopen() or stream_socket_client() family. Basically you do the same thing: talking to the mailserver directly.
// open connection
$stream = #stream_socket_client($host . ':' . $port);
// write HELO command
fwrite($stream, "HELO my.domain.com\r\n");
// read response
$data = '';
while (!feof($stream)) {
$data += fgets($stream, 1024);
}
// repeat for other steps
// ...
// close connection
fclose($stream);
You can just use the build in PHP function mail for it. The body part doesnt have to be just text, it can also contain mixed part data.
Keep in mind that this is a proof of concept. The sendEmlFile function could use some more checking, like "Does the file exists" and "Does it have a boundry set". As you mentioned it is for testing/development, I have not included it.
<?php
function sendmail($body,$subject,$to, $boundry='') {
define ("CRLF", "\r\n");
//basic settings
$from = "Example mail<info#example.com>";
//define headers
$sHeaders = "From: ".$from.CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion().CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".CRLF;
//if you supply a boundry, it will be send with your own data
//else it will be send as regular html email
if (strlen($boundry)>0)
$sHeaders .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$boundry."\"".CRLF;
else
{
$sHeaders .= "Content-type: text/html;".CRLF."\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"".CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".CRLF."Content-Disposition: inline";
}
mail($to,$subject,$body,$sHeaders);
}
function sendEmlFile($subject, $to, $filename) {
$body = file_get_contents($filename);
//get first line "--Apple-Mail-159-396126150"
$boundry = $str = strtok($body, "\n");
sendmail($body,$subject,$to, $boundry);
}
?>
Update:
After some more testing I found that all .eml files are different. There might be a standard, but I had tons of options when exporting to .eml. I had to use a seperate tool to create the file, because you cannot save to .eml by default using outlook.
You can download an example of the mail script. It contains two versions.
The simple version has two files, one is the index.php file that sends the test.eml file. This is just a file where i pasted in the example code you posted in your question.
The advanced version sends an email using an actual .eml file I created. it will get the required headers from the file it self. Keep in mind that this also sets the To and From part of the mail, so change it to match your own/server settings.
The advanced code works like this:
<?php
function sendEmlFile($filename) {
//define a clear line
define ("CRLF", "\r\n");
//eml content to array.
$file = file($filename);
//var to store the headers
$headers = "";
$to = "";
$subject = "";
//loop trough each line
//the first part are the headers, until you reach a white line
while(true) {
//get the first line and remove it from the file
$line = array_shift($file);
if (strlen(trim($line))==0) {
//headers are complete
break;
}
//is it the To header
if (substr(strtolower($line), 0,3)=="to:") {
$to = trim(substr($line, 3));
continue;
}
//Is it the subject header
if (substr(strtolower($line), 0,8)=="subject:") {
$subject = trim(substr($line, 8));
continue;
}
$headers .= $line . CRLF;
}
//implode the remaining content into the body and trim it, incase the headers where seperated with multiple white lines
$body = trim(implode('', $file));
//echo content for debugging
/*
echo $headers;
echo '<hr>';
echo $to;
echo '<hr>';
echo $subject;
echo '<hr>';
echo $body;
*/
//send the email
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
}
//initiate a test with the test file
sendEmlFile("Test.eml");
?>
You could start here
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/36108-send-emails-using-php-smtp-direct/
I have no idea how good that code is, but it would make a starting point.
What you are doing is connecting direct to port 25 on the remote machine, as you would with telnet, and issuing smtp commands. See eg http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html for what's going on (or see Jasper N. Brouwer's answer).
Just make a quick shell script which processes a directory and call it when you want e.g. using at crontab etc
for I in ls /mydir/ do cat I | awk .. | sendmail -options
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/awk/
You could also just talk to the mail server using the script to send the emls with a templated body..
Edit: I have added the code to Github, for ease of use by other people. https://github.com/xrobau/smtphack
I realise I am somewhat necro-answering this question, but it wasn't answered and I needed to do this myself. Here's the code!
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
class SMTPHack
{
private $phpmailer;
private $smtp;
private $from;
private $to;
/**
* #param string $from
* #param string $to
* #param string $smtphost
* #return void
*/
public function __construct(string $from, string $to, string $smtphost = 'mailrx')
{
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Host = $smtphost;
$this->phpmailer = $mail;
$this->from = $from;
$this->to = $to;
}
/**
* #param string $helo
* #return SMTP
*/
public function getSmtp(string $helo = ''): SMTP
{
if (!$this->smtp) {
if ($helo) {
$this->phpmailer->Helo = $helo;
}
$this->phpmailer->smtpConnect();
$this->smtp = $this->phpmailer->getSMTPInstance();
$this->smtp->mail($this->from);
$this->smtp->recipient($this->to);
}
return $this->smtp;
}
/**
* #param string $data
* #param string $helo
* #param boolean $quiet
* #return void
* #throws \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception
*/
public function data(string $data, string $helo = '', bool $quiet = true)
{
$smtp = $this->getSmtp($helo);
$prev = $smtp->do_debug;
if ($quiet) {
$smtp->do_debug = 0;
}
$smtp->data($data);
$smtp->do_debug = $prev;
}
}
Using that, you can simply beat PHPMailer into submission with a few simple commands:
$from = 'xrobau#example.com';
$to = 'fred#example.com';
$hack = new SMTPHack($from, $to);
$smtp = $hack->getSmtp('helo.hostname');
$errors = $smtp->getError();
// Assuming this is running in a phpunit test...
$this->assertEmpty($errors['error']);
$testemail = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/TestEmail.eml');
$hack->data($testemail);
I'm writing a help desk pipe handler to pipe incoming e-mails as helpdesk ticket replies. Some e-mails are coming in perfectly fine, others are coming in as a jumble of the text and =3D's all munged into one giant string. Does anyone have an idea on how to decode that into plain text.
For reference, this is my mail parser function:
public function parseEmailMessage(Zend_Mail_Message $msg)
{
if ($msg->isMultiPart()) {
$arrAttachments = array();
$body = '';
// Multipart Mime Message
foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($msg) as $part) {
try {
$mimeType = strtok($part->contentType, ';');
// Parse file name
preg_match('/name="(?<filename>[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]+)"/is', $part->contentType, $attachmentName);
// Append plaintext results to $body
// All other content parts will be treated as attachments
switch ($mimeType) {
case 'text/plain':
$body .= trim($part->getContent()) . "\n";
break;
case 'text/html':
$body .= trim(strip_tags($part->getContent));
break;
default:
$arrAttachments[] = array(
'attachment_mime' => $mimeType,
'attachment_name' => $this->filterFileName($attachmentName['filename']),
'base64data' => trim($part->getContent())
);
}
} catch (Zend_Mail_Exception $e) {
// ignore
}
}
return array($body, $arrAttachments);
} else {
// Plain text message
return array(trim($msg->getContent()), array());
}
}
I'll take a guess that somehow the content type is not correctly specified and Zend doesn't know how to decode it. I know I've seen this before, but I can't remember where or how it was 'solved'.
It looks like quoted-printable being treated like plain text.