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PHP : Function Reference : Mailparse Functions

Mailparse Functions

Introduction

Mailparse is an extension for parsing and working with email messages. It can deal with » RFC 822 and » RFC 2045 (MIME) compliant messages.

Mailparse is stream based, which means that it does not keep in-memory copies of the files it processes - so it is very resource efficient when dealing with large messages.

Note:

Mailparse requires the mbstring extension, and mbstring must be loaded before mailparse.

This extension has been moved to the » PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 4.2.0.

Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/mailparse.

In order to use these functions you must compile PHP with mailparse support by using the --enable-mailparse configure option.

Windows users will enable php_mailparse.dll inside of php.ini in order to use these functions. The DLL for this PECL extension may be downloaded from either the » PHP Downloads page or from » http://pecl4win.php.net/

Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Table 157. Mailparse configuration options

Name Default Changeable Changelog
mailparse.def_charset "us-ascii" PHP_INI_ALL Available since PHP 4.1.0. Removed in PHP 4.2.0.


For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix I, php.ini directives.

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

MAILPARSE_EXTRACT_OUTPUT (integer)
MAILPARSE_EXTRACT_STREAM (integer)
MAILPARSE_EXTRACT_RETURN (integer)

Table of Contents

mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encoding — Gets the best way of encoding
mailparse_msg_create — Create a mime mail resource
mailparse_msg_extract_part_file — Extracts/decodes a message section
mailparse_msg_extract_part — Extracts/decodes a message section
mailparse_msg_extract_whole_part_file — Extracts a message section including headers without decoding the transfer encoding
mailparse_msg_free — Frees a MIME resource
mailparse_msg_get_part_data — Returns an associative array of info about the message
mailparse_msg_get_part — Returns a handle on a given section in a mimemessage
mailparse_msg_get_structure — Returns an array of mime section names in the supplied message
mailparse_msg_parse_file — Parses a file
mailparse_msg_parse — Incrementally parse data into buffer
mailparse_rfc822_parse_addresses — Parse RFC 822 compliant addresses
mailparse_stream_encode — Streams data from source file pointer, apply encoding and write to destfp
mailparse_uudecode_all — Scans the data from fp and extract each embedded uuencoded file

Code Examples / Notes » ref.mailparse

wberrier

[Authors note:
The tarball for 4.2.x can be found here:
http://thebrainroom.com/opensource/php/mailparse.php
and contains a script called try.php that demonstrates the usage of these functions.
]
I've pasted the contents of the file below:
<?php
/*
* This is a simple email viewer.
* make sure that $filename points to a file containing an email message and
* load this page in your browser.
* You will be able to choose a part to view.
* */
$filename = "uumsg";
/* parse the message and return a mime message resource */
$mime = mailparse_msg_parse_file($filename);
/* return an array of message parts - this contsists of the names of the parts
* only */
$struct = mailparse_msg_get_structure($mime);
echo "<table>\n";
/* print a choice of sections */
foreach($struct as $st) {
       echo "<tr>\n";
       echo "<td><a href=\"$PHP_SELF?showpart=$st\">$st</a></td>\n";
       /* get a handle on the message resource for a subsection */
       $section = mailparse_msg_get_part($mime, $st);
       /* get content-type, encoding and header information for that section */
       $info = mailparse_msg_get_part_data($section);
       echo "\n";
       echo "<td>" . $info["content-type"] . "</td>\n";
       echo "<td>" . $info["content-disposition"] . "</td>\n";
       echo "<td>" . $info["disposition-filename"] . "</td>\n";
       echo "<td>" . $info["charset"] . "</td>\n";
       echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
/* if we were called to display a part, do so now */
if ($showpart)  {
       /* get a handle on the message resource for the desired part */
       $sec = mailparse_msg_get_part($mime, $showpart);
       echo "<table border=1><tr><th>Section $showpart</th></tr><tr><td>";
       ob_start();
       /* extract the part from the message file and dump it to the output buff
er
        * */
       mailparse_msg_extract_part_file($sec, $filename);
       $contents = ob_get_contents();
       ob_end_clean();
       /* quote the message for safe display in a browser */
       echo nl2br(htmlentities($contents)) . "</td></tr></table>";;
}
?>


boris

Example how to handle mail content from a variable:
<?php
$buffer = [...] // Mail Content from pipe or whatever
$mail = mailparse_msg_create();
mailparse_msg_parse($mail,$buffer);
$struct = mailparse_msg_get_structure($mail);
foreach($struct as $st) {
$section = mailparse_msg_get_part($mail, $st);
$info = mailparse_msg_get_part_data($section);

print_r($info);
}
?>


iwarner

Also dont forget to LOAD mbstring before you load mailparse
example in the php.ini place in this order:
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_mailparse.dll
Or you will get an error.
Ian


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