php imap - get body and make plain text

Question

I am using the PHP imap function to get emails from a POP3 mailbox and insert the data into a MySQL database.

Here is the PHP code:

$inbox = imap_ope         


        

Answer 1

This happens because the emails are normally Quoted-printable encoded. The = is a soft line break and =20 is a white space. I think, you could use quoted_printable_decode() on the message so it shows correctly. About the blank emails, I don't know, I would need more details.

Basically:

//get message body
$message = quoted_printable_decode(imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,1.1));