parsing raw email in php

Question

I\'m looking for good/working/simple to use php code for parsing raw email into parts.

I\'ve written a couple of brute force solutions, but every time, one small cha

Answer 1

There are Mailparse Functions you could try: http://php.net/manual/en/book.mailparse.php, not in default php conf, however.

Answer 2

Try the Plancake PHP Email parser: https://github.com/plancake/official-library-php-email-parser

I have used it for my projects. It works great, it is just one class and it is open source.

Answer 3

Simple PhpMimeParser https://github.com/breakermind/PhpMimeParser Yuo can cut mime messages from files, string. Get files, html and inline images.

$str = file_get_contents('mime-mixed-related-alternative.eml');

// MimeParser
$m = new PhpMimeParser($str);

// Emails
print_r($m->mTo);
print_r($m->mFrom);

// Message
echo $m->mSubject;
echo $m->mHtml;
echo $m->mText;

// Attachments and inline images
print_r($m->mFiles);
print_r($m->mInlineList);

Answer 4

I cobbled this together, some code isn't mine but I don't know where it came from... I later adopted the more robust "MimeMailParser" but this works fine, I pipe my default email to it using cPanel and it works great.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
// Config
$dbuser = 'emlusr';
$dbpass = 'pass';
$dbname = 'email';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$notify= 'services@.com'; // an email address required in case of errors
function mailRead($iKlimit = "") 
    { 
        // Purpose: 
        //   Reads piped mail from STDIN 
        // 
        // Arguements: 
        //   $iKlimit (integer, optional): specifies after how many kilobytes reading of mail should stop 
        //   Defaults to 1024k if no value is specified 
        //     A value of -1 will cause reading to continue until the entire message has been read 
        // 
        // Return value: 
        //   A string containing the entire email, headers, body and all. 

        // Variable perparation         
            // Set default limit of 1024k if no limit has been specified 
            if ($iKlimit == "") { 
                $iKlimit = 1024; 
            } 

            // Error strings 
            $sErrorSTDINFail = "Error - failed to read mail from STDIN!"; 

        // Attempt to connect to STDIN 
        $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); 

        // Failed to connect to STDIN? (shouldn't really happen) 
        if (!$fp) { 
            echo $sErrorSTDINFail; 
            exit(); 
        } 

        // Create empty string for storing message 
        $sEmail = ""; 

        // Read message up until limit (if any) 
        if ($iKlimit == -1) { 
            while (!feof($fp)) { 
                $sEmail .= fread($fp, 1024); 
            }                     
        } else { 
            while (!feof($fp) && $i_limit < $iKlimit) { 
                $sEmail .= fread($fp, 1024); 
                $i_limit++; 
            }         
        } 

        // Close connection to STDIN 
        fclose($fp); 

        // Return message 
        return $sEmail; 
    }  
$email = mailRead();

// handle email
$lines = explode("\n", $email);

// empty vars
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$splittingheaders = true;
for ($i=0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
    if ($splittingheaders) {
        // this is a header
        $headers .= $lines[$i]."\n";

        // look out for special headers
        if (preg_match("/^Subject: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $subject = $matches[1];
        }
        if (preg_match("/^From: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $from = $matches[1];
        }
        if (preg_match("/^To: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $to = $matches[1];
        }
    } else {
        // not a header, but message
        $message .= $lines[$i]."\n";
    }

    if (trim($lines[$i])=="") {
        // empty line, header section has ended
        $splittingheaders = false;
    }
}

if ($conn = @mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass)) {
  if(!@mysql_select_db($dbname,$conn))
    mail($email,'Email Logger Error',"There was an error selecting the email logger database.\n\n".mysql_error());
  $from    = mysql_real_escape_string($from);
  $to    = mysql_real_escape_string($to);
  $subject = mysql_real_escape_string($subject);
  $headers = mysql_real_escape_string($headers);
  $message = mysql_real_escape_string($message);
  $email   = mysql_real_escape_string($email);
  $result = @mysql_query("INSERT INTO email_log (`to`,`from`,`subject`,`headers`,`message`,`source`) VALUES('$to','$from','$subject','$headers','$message','$email')");
  if (mysql_affected_rows() == 0)
    mail($notify,'Email Logger Error',"There was an error inserting into the email logger database.\n\n".mysql_error());
} else {
  mail($notify,'Email Logger Error',"There was an error connecting the email logger database.\n\n".mysql_error());
}
?>

Answer 5

The Pear lib Mail_mimeDecode is written in plain PHP that you can see here: Mail_mimeDecode source

Answer 6

This library work very well:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3169-PHP-Decode-MIME-e-mail-messages.html