PEAR Mail_mimeDecode attachments problem

[Louis Aslett]

Hi,

I am extremely stuck trying to port a PHP app from one server to
another while making use of the PEAR Mail_mimeDecode package. We have
just upgraded from RedHat 7.x to RedHat Enterprise Linux ES Basic v3
because of the end-of-life statement from RedHat. Basically, this
means a change from Apache 1.3 to 2 and PHP 4.1.2 to 4.3.2.

After initial problems getting Mail_mimeDecode to return any
attachments to emails I downloaded and installed the latest version
from pear.php.net. However, this still does not work and only returns
the body in array element part[0], but nothing in part[1] as it used
to. I tried wholesale copying the PEAR directory and a very simple
test script to a RedHat 7.x server and everything works perfectly, but
a perfect byte-for-byte replica on the RHEL3 server only returns the
body.

The test script is:

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?
require_once('/usr/share/php/Mail.php');
require_once('/usr/share/php/Mail/mimeDecode.php' );

$stdin = fopen('php://stdin','r');
if( !$stdin ) {
echo 'ERROR: Cannot open stdin';
exit();
}

$msg = fread($stdin,10 00000);

fclose($stdin);

$params['include_bodies '] = TRUE;
$params['decode_bodies'] = TRUE;
$params['decode_headers '] = TRUE;
$params['input'] = $msg;
$params['crlf'] = "\n";
$mail = Mail_mimeDecode ::decode($param s);

print_r($mail);
?>

and I pipe the email to it on the command line. On RHEL I get:

[root@pe2500 smbtest]# cat test|./test.php
stdClass Object
(
[headers] => Array
(
[from] => "HIDDEN" <HIDDEN@HIDDE N>
[to] => <HIDDEN@HIDDE N>
[subject] => HIDDEN
[date] => Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:11:43 -0000
[mime-version] => 1.0
[content-type] => multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_ 136C_01C3F24A.3 AE231F0"
[x-priority] => 3
[x-msmail-priority] => Normal
[x-mimeole] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE
V6.00.2800.1165
)

[ctype_primary] => multipart
[ctype_secondary] => mixed
[ctype_parameter s] => Array
(
[boundary] => ----=_NextPart_000_ 136C_01C3F24A.3 AE231F0
)

[parts] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[headers] => Array
(
[content-type] => text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
[content-transfer-encoding] => 7bit
)

[ctype_primary] => text
[ctype_secondary] => plain
[ctype_parameter s] => Array
(
[charset] => iso-8859-1
)

[body] => Lots of body content here

)

)

)

with no sign of any second MIME part, whereas I get

[1] => stdClass Object
(
[headers] => Array
(
[content-type] => application/pdf;
name="05041534. pdf"
[content-transfer-encoding] => base64
[content-disposition] => attachment;
filename="05041 534.pdf"
)

[ctype_primary] => application
[ctype_secondary] => pdf
[ctype_parameter s] => Array
(
[name] => 05041534.pdf
)

[disposition] => attachment
[d_parameters] => Array
(
[filename] => 05041534.pdf
)

[body] => %PDF-1.1
3 0 obj
<</Type /XObject
/Subtype /Image
etc etc etc

following the first MIME part on the 7.x machine.

I am completely dumbfounded. Are there *any* changes between PHP
4.1.2 and 4.3.2 which break Mail_mimeDecode ?? I've tried looking
through the source, but none of the functions jump out as having
undergone any changes between those PHP versions.

Many thanks in anticipation,

Louis

[Louis Aslett]

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Hi,

I am extremely stuck trying to port a PHP app from one server to
another while making use of the PEAR Mail_mimeDecode package. We have
just upgraded from RedHat 7.x to RedHat Enterprise Linux ES Basic v3
because of the end-of-life statement from RedHat. Basically, this
means a change from Apache 1.3 to 2 and PHP 4.1.2 to 4.3.2.

After initial problems getting Mail_mimeDecode to return any
attachments to emails I downloaded and installed the latest version
from pear.php.net. However, this still does not work and only returns
the body in array element part[0], but nothing in part[1] as it used
to. I tried wholesale copying the PEAR directory and a very simple
test script to a RedHat 7.x server and everything works perfectly, but
a perfect byte-for-byte replica on the RHEL3 server only returns the
body.

The test script is:
[SNIP]
following the first MIME part on the 7.x machine.

I am completely dumbfounded. Are there *any* changes between PHP
4.1.2 and 4.3.2 which break Mail_mimeDecode ?? I've tried looking
through the source, but none of the functions jump out as having
undergone any changes between those PHP versions.

Many thanks in anticipation,

Louis

For anyone interested, I've found that the problem is definitely
PHP/PEAR related and not Red Hat Enterprise Linux. After much
downloading/compiling of old PHP versions it transpires that the move
from PHP 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 is where this functionality broke. Everything
upto and including 4.3.1 work, but 4.3.2 and everything since don't.

There is a new bug at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=779 which
I've opened to report the issue.

Louis