php imap get from email address - php

Question

How do I retrieve the email address from an email with imap_open?
If the sender name is known I get the sender name instead of the email address if I use the 'from' parameter.
Code: http://gist.github.com/514207

Answer 1

$header = imap_headerinfo($imap_conn, $msgnum);
$fromaddr = $header->from[0]->mailbox . "#" . $header->from[0]->host;

Answer 2

I battled with this as well but the following works:
// Get email address
$header = imap_header($imap, $result); // get first mails header
echo '<p>Name: ' . $header->fromaddress . '<p>';
echo '<p>Email: ' . $header->senderaddress . '<p>';
I had used imap_fetch_overview() but the imap_header() gave me all the information I needed.

Answer 3

Worst case, you can parse the headers yourself with something like:
<?php
$headers=imap_fetchheader($imap, $msgid);
preg_match_all('/([^: ]+): (.+?(?:\r\n\s(?:.+?))*)\r\n/m', $headers, $matches);
?>
$matches will contain 3 arrays:
$matches[0] are the full-lines (such as "To: user#user.com\r\n")
$matches[1] will be the header (such as "To")
$matches[2] will be the value (user#user.com)
Got this from: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetchheader.php#82339

Answer 4

Had same issue as you....had to piece it together, don't know why it's such gonzoware.
Untested example here:
$mbox = imap_open(....)
$MN=$MC->Nmsgs;
$overview=imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"1:$MN",0);
$size=sizeof($overview);
for($i=$size-1;$i>=0;$i--){
$val=$overview[$i];
$msg=$val->msgno;
$header = imap_headerinfo ( $mbox, $msg);
echo '<p>Name / Email Address: ' . $header->from[0]->personal ." ".
$header->from[0]->mailbox ."#". $header->from[0]->host. '<p></br>';
}
imap_close($mbox);

Answer 5

imap_fetch_overview could be what you're looking for: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetch-overview.php
An example of use can be found here: http://davidwalsh.name/gmail-php-imap, specifically
echo $overview[0]->from;
This function is simple, but has limitations. A more exhaustive version is in imap_headerinfo ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-headerinfo.php ) which can return detailed arrays of all header data.

Answer 6

Had trouble until I spotted that the $header is an array of stdClass Objects. The following 2 lines worked:
$header=imap_fetch_overview($imap,$countClients,FT_UID);
$strAddress_Sender=$header[0]->from;

Answer 7

Full working code with an online example
Extract email addresses list from inbox using PHP and IMAP
inbox-using-php-and-imap
I think all you need is just to copy the script.
I am publishing two core functions of the code here as well (thanks to Eineki's comment)
function getAddressText(&$emailList, &$nameList, $addressObject) {
$emailList = '';
$nameList = '';
foreach ($addressObject as $object) {
$emailList .= ';';
if (isset($object->personal)) {
$emailList .= $object->personal;
}
$nameList .= ';';
if (isset($object->mailbox) && isset($object->host)) {
$nameList .= $object->mailbox . "#" . $object->host;
}
}
$emailList = ltrim($emailList, ';');
$nameList = ltrim($nameList, ';');
}
function processMessage($mbox, $messageNumber) {
echo $messageNumber;
// get imap_fetch header and put single lines into array
$header = imap_rfc822_parse_headers(imap_fetchheader($mbox, $messageNumber));
$fromEmailList = '';
$fromNameList = '';
if (isset($header->from)) {
getAddressText($fromEmailList, $fromNameList, $header->from);
}
$toEmailList = '';
$toNameList = '';
if (isset($header->to)) {
getAddressText($toEmailList, $toNameList, $header->to);
}
$body = imap_fetchbody($mbox, $messageNumber, 1);
$bodyEmailList = implode(';', extractEmail($body));
print_r(
',' . $fromEmailList . ',' . $fromNameList
. ',' . $toEmailList . ',' . $toNameList
. ',' . $bodyEmailList . "\n"
);
}