How to remove an email message in Maildir from PHP? - php

Question

I'm going crazy with a little problem with Maildir and PHP.
I need to check the APACHE_RUN_USER's Maildir and parse delivery-status messages.
The problem removing message after reading; i noticed that Zend_Mail_Storage_Maildir->removeMessage() is still a stub.
try {
$mailbox = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Maildir( array('dirname' => '/home/' . $_ENV['APACHE_RUN_USER'] . '/Maildir/') );
foreach ($mailbox as $id => $message) {
// seen flag
if ($message->hasFlag(Zend_Mail_Storage::FLAG_SEEN)) { continue; }
//get the unique id
$uniqueid = $mailbox->getUniqueId($id);
//obtain message headers
$headers = $message->getHeaders();
//check if the original message was sent from this app and is a delivery-status
$result = strpos($message, $id_header);
if($result === false) { echo '1 mail skipped: ' . $uniqueid . '. <br />'; continue; }
$result = strpos($headers['content-type'], 'delivery-status');
//if no skip to the next mail
if($result === false) { echo '1 mail skipped: ' . $uniqueid . '. <br />'; continue; }
// if everything it's ok process it.
// clear results
$data = array();
// foreach line of message
foreach( preg_split('/(\r?\n)/', $message) as $line ){
//clear results
$matches = array();
//perform matches on textlines
if( preg_match('/^(.+)\:\s{0,1}(.+)$/', $line, $matches) ) {
//grab intrested headers
foreach( array('Action', 'Status', 'Remote-MTA', 'Diagnostic-Code', $id_header) as $header) {
if($matches[1] == $header) $data[$header] = $matches[2];
}
}
}
// *** I NEED TO DROP THE MESSAGE HERE ***
// not working code ***
$currentmessageid = $mailbox->getNumberByUniqueId($uniqueid);
$mailbox->removeMessage($currentmessageid);
// *** I NEED TO DROP THE MESSAGE HERE ***
// print out results
echo '<pre class="email">';
print_r( $data );
echo '</pre>';
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e;
}
How can I remove it by hand? Some workarounds?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Sorry , its not implemented yet !
check out issue tracker http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-9574
its open issue till today but some comment might be helpful :
In order to delete an email from a
maildir or mbox storage one must use:
Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Maildir or
Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Mbox
There are historical reasons for this
and they should be addressed and
standardised. For now the above
classes must be used or an exception
will be thrown with a message that is
a bit misleading.
Please refer to:
http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-9574
for more details.

Answer 2

In order of tawfekov answer I solved as follow:
Opening mailbox:
$mailbox = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Maildir( array('dirname' => '/home/' . $_ENV['APACHE_RUN_USER'] . '/Maildir/') );
Processing mail code:
foreach ($mailbox as $id => $message) {
$uniqueid = $mailbox->getUniqueId($id);
/* ... mail processing code ... */
// mark as read
$currentmessageid = $mailbox->getNumberByUniqueId($uniqueid);
$mailbox->setFlags($currentmessageid, array(Zend_Mail_Storage::FLAG_SEEN));
// or uncomment to delete it
//$mailbox->removeMessage($currentmessageid);
}