Accessing POP3 Mail in PHP

[Harold Philips]

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive is
the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold

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[Steve]

"Harold Philips" <ha***********@adcl.bizwrote in message
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Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive is
the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold
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if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are. parse
those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is seperated from
the header by two new line characters...and is the last portion of the
email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email as a text file. open
the text file in a text editor. look for the tags you expect to parse...then
create the code to do your parsing.

that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)

[Harold Philips]

"Steve" <no****@example.comwrote in message
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"Harold Philips" <ha***********@adcl.bizwrote in message
news:46***********************@free.teranews.com.. .

>Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive
is the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold
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if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are. parse
those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is seperated from
the header by two new line characters...and is the last portion of the
email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email as a text file.
open the text file in a text editor. look for the tags you expect to
parse...then create the code to do your parsing.

that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)

Thank you for the reply. Definately not the "easy" button but a lot closer
to it than I was.

Thanks!

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[Steve]

"Harold Philips" <ha***********@adcl.bizwrote in message
news:46***********************@free.teranews.com.. .

>
"Steve" <no****@example.comwrote in message
news:I7***************@newsfe12.lga...

>>
"Harold Philips" <ha***********@adcl.bizwrote in message
news:46***********************@free.teranews.com. ..

>>Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP?
I have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to
retreive is the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are.
parse those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is
seperated from the header by two new line characters...and is the last
portion of the email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email as
a text file. open the text file in a text editor. look for the tags you
expect to parse...then create the code to do your parsing.

that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)

Thank you for the reply. Definately not the "easy" button but a lot closer
to it than I was.

are you comfortable with parsing?

[Harold Philips]

>>>Hello Everyone,

>>>>
Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP?
I have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to
retreive is the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold

>>if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are.
parse those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is
seperated from the header by two new line characters...and is the last
portion of the email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email
as a text file. open the text file in a text editor. look for the tags
you expect to parse...then create the code to do your parsing.

that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)

Thank you for the reply. Definately not the "easy" button but a lot
closer to it than I was.

are you comfortable with parsing?

No, I'm not. I am almost terrified of regular expressions. lol
It sucks to because all I need is to get the body of the email and the
sender.
Why do you as?

Harold

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[Steve]

"Harold Philips" <ha***********@adcl.bizwrote in message
news:46***********************@free.teranews.com.. .

>>>>Hello Everyone,
>
Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP?
I have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to
retreive is the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?
>
Thanks,
Harold

>>>if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are.
parse those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is
seperated from the header by two new line characters...and is the last
portion of the email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email
as a text file. open the text file in a text editor. look for the tags
you expect to parse...then create the code to do your parsing.

that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)

Thank you for the reply. Definately not the "easy" button but a lot
closer to it than I was.

are you comfortable with parsing?

No, I'm not. I am almost terrified of regular expressions. lol
It sucks to because all I need is to get the body of the email and the
sender.
Why do you as?

because i can help. you don't need regex to do it. if you just want the
body, find the first occurance of \r\n\r\n. where that occurs, use substr
and you have it...that doesn't take into account that the message itself may
be part of a multi-mimed format - one that gives both a text version and the
other, html.

does that get you going?

[gosha bine]

On 19.09.2007 03:00 Harold Philips wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive is
the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold

Hi

take a look at

http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_mimeDecode
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[Chuck Anderson]

Harold Philips wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive is
the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Harold

I use this Pop3 Class from Manuel Lemos:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2.html

The examples were pretty easy to follow - and then modify to my needs..

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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

on 09/18/2007 10:00 PM Harold Philips said the following:

Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP? I
have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to retreive is
the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?

If you need to access complex e-mail messages with text, HTML, images,
attachments, etc., you may want to try to use this MIME message parser
class:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser

Actually, you can hook it with this POP3 class and handle large messages
without needing much memory:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class
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Manuel Lemos

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