What I am trying to do is, lets say, our users send an email to help#supportmysite.com, then as soon as help#supportmysite.com receives an email, it checks the parts of the email and gets the title, email from whom we got the mail, text body, and the attachments in it.
How can i go about making a system like that in PHP? This is my first time developing something like this. I haven't really ever fiddled with PHP mailer and other stuff related to mails, so need a little help :)
Thanks :D
Take a look at the PHP IMAP documentation. It can be used to retrieve various bits of information from emails so I think that'd be a good starting point for you.
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I need to write a PHP script that can insert one (or more) additional header, and re-send it to another email address.
How would I do that using PHPmailer? I can't seem to find how to do a 'raw send' of email message (with additional headers inserted already).
Or, if PHPmailer can't do that, how do you recommend I do what I want?
After spelunking around, I decided to just use 'fsockopen' and adapt this PHP snippet (lots of bugs there).
Thanks for everyone commenting!
I am currently using Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap to read email messages using IMAP. I am able to read the email body (text and html) thanks to the documentation.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to save email attachments. I can't find anything that explains how to convert the raw content and save the attachments. How can I do this?
Try these:
http://macfoo.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/save-an-email-attachment-using-zend-mail/
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/function-extract-email-attachments-php-imap/
I found that reading emails using Zend_Mail can be a little buggy. Sometimes not all of the attachment files are recognized or in some cases imap can't even decode the body of the email .
We're using Sendgrid service to parse emails now, and it's working pretty well. They have a special api to decode emails. on the downside, it cost money, but I prefer better results.
I am using imap to grap emails and insert them into a mysql database. But I don't want the original email included.
So lets say I send out an email that contains this:
Hello, How is the weather.
And then you respond
The weather is great
The email that php reads from Imap looks like this:
The weather is great
Hello, How is the weather.
Is there away to remove the orginal message, "Hello, How is the weather."?
I am not to savvy on this stuff and will probably need things explained very clearly. Thanks!
Nope. Since there is no standard way to reply (i.e., some people use >, some use |, some top-post, some intermix, some attach) there's no way to accurately and reliably pull out the original. You could fiddle with regexp to catch some of the more common cases, but I think you'll find that route to be far more trouble than it's worth.
To my knowledge, there is no foolproof way to do this. When you reply to an email, the MUA has the right to reformat the original message as it sees fit. For example, Outlook may convert the original text to HTML and add invisible tags.
If you have access to the whole email thread, you may be able to find the original message based on subject or any hints that the headers give you.
This is all AFAIK, so someone please correct me if I am wrong.
You could do what Gmail does when you are sending multiple emails back and forth with the same subject.
Just keep a copy of the email that you send and then when you get a reply, look for similar text or as Gmail refers to it: "quoted text".
Or you can look for certain patterns based on their email domain. However, there is no answer that will work 100% of the time; it is all just based on your best guess.
I am trying to integrate IMAP email processing with another in house system that bases what it uses off of the subject line / email content.
We need to be able to change the text of the subject line before moving the email to a new folder. What/where would be a good place to start?
I've had a look around and it IS possible in a manual sense, via a thunderbird plugin or using outlook. I just can't seem to find a relevant example in PHP, or any other language for that matter. I also hear the idea is flakey at best as you need to modify the email content and upload it back to the imap server.
The outlook implementation seems to delete the original and save a new one to your IMAP folder on the server.
Side note: Yes I know it is a weird requirement, and although forwarding the email to ourselves then moving it is our fall back plan it is not much liked as it moves original headers useful for things like reply-all.
Any suggestions appreciated.
PS If I'm blind and there is something obvious I'm missing in the manual let me know.
Do you already have any code built to handle the email processing? IMAP subject line information is stored as a header so you would need to utilize the PHP functions of imap_headerinfo() and/or imap_fetchheader() depending on the functionality you're looking for to achieve this. You could have PHP check each message header and if it matches X format, remove the message, and create a new one with the appropriately modified header information.
I am looking for a solution that will enable me to connect to a mailbox, obtain an email, apply specific modifications to the email body (for example, change the content), and then forward the newly modified email to a new email address.
The trick is that such modification must not destroy the format and headers of the original email and I must not lose any attachments that were in the original email.
The sort of manipulation that will be performed will need to be done by an external process that knows the logic of my application.
The solution I am looking for can be an external software that can invoke some API for processing the content of the emails, or even API by itself that my code will invoke.
Our solution is currently based on PHP, but any other solution is also acceptable.
I started working with the Zend Mail library but I am running into problem having to understand the inner-workings of email formats. I wouldn't want to start messing around with the mime objects in the email format. I only want to alter the textual content of the message and keep the rest untouched.
http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php - functions that let you manipulate email systems.
What mail server are you using? In qmail its easy to process any incomming email. You can put any script in any language to process the lines of the email.
If you have IMAP access to your server you can use the php IMAP lib. http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
I wrote a library as part of a larger open source app that may help you a bit. Its an object orientated wrapper around the PHP imap functions and can be found at google code.
Unfortunately this doesn't do exactly what you want. What in the message are you trying to change? I may be possible to just grab a raw version and specifically search out what you want to change, ignoring the whole mimetype processing altogether, and then just send the whole message along again.
Resending the email is simple enough, and this (small tutorial)* on sending email with attachments can refresh you on the basics (although most of what is in there you can skip as the attachments and mimetypes will already be built).
* I can't post the link because my reputation isn't high enough for two links in a single post, so I'll add it in a comment.