MimeMailParser Extension IMAP Setup - php

Question

Currently I have an old script that parses emails, as seen here:
// Accessing the mailbox
$mailbox = imap_open("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX", $mailbox, $mailboxPassword);
// Retrieving only unread messages
$mail = imap_search($mailbox, 'UNSEEN');
// If no new messages found aborting the script
if(empty($mail)) die('No unread emails found!');
$total_found = 0;
$skipped = 0;
// Now we loop through messages
foreach ($mail as $key => $val) {
// process everything
}
This works fine other than some encoding issues with Russian (Cyrillic) characters and a few other issues. While I could hunt down all these issues individually, it seems like there are already great mail parsing classes out there. I found this, which I'd like to use as it sounds like this gets suggested often.
The example code provided is with the parser is below.
<?php
require_once('MimeMailParser.class.php');
$path = 'path/to/mail.txt';
$Parser = new MimeMailParser();
$Parser->setPath($path);
$to = $Parser->getHeader('to');
$from = $Parser->getHeader('from');
$subject = $Parser->getHeader('subject');
$text = $Parser->getMessageBody('text');
$html = $Parser->getMessageBody('html');
$attachments = $Parser->getAttachments();
?>
However it seems to need a reference to $path which is confusing me as the emails are not stored in a folder, there pulled from IMAP. Would I add $path = $mail; in the foreach block? If not, what format do I supply the email to the parser in? Do I have to use the same script I already have and save it to a folder?
All the emails are being retrieved from Gmail. I used IMAP but could use POP instead if IMAP wont work.
Based on the suggested answer i tried this code but its just looping through x unread emails and displaying blank data for everything, headers and body?
// Accessing the mailbox
$mailbox = imap_open("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX", $mailbox, $mailboxPassword);
// Retrieving only unread messages
$mail = imap_search($mailbox, 'UNSEEN');
// If no new messages found aborting the script
if(empty($mail)) die('No unread emails found!');
$total_found = 0;
$skipped = 0;
// Now we loop through messages
foreach ($mail as $email) {
$Parser = new MimeMailParser();
$Parser->setText($mail);
echo "-----------------------------Start Of Email---------------------------------";
echo "<br /><br /><br /><br />";
$to = $Parser->getHeader('to');
echo "To: " . $to . "<br />";
$from = $Parser->getHeader('from');
echo "From: " . $from . "<br />";
$subject = $Parser->getHeader('subject');
echo "Subject: " . $subject . "<br /><br /><br />";
//$text = $Parser->getMessageBody('text');
$html = $Parser->getMessageBody('html');
echo "Body: " . "<br /><br />" . $html . "<br />";
//$attachments = $Parser->getAttachments();
echo "<br /><br /><br /><br />";
echo "-----------------------------End Of Email---------------------------------";
}

Answer 1

That class has another function to set the message content directly. Just call $Parser->setText($mail) where $mail is the message content in your IMAP foreach loop.