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by Syd Chino Barrett - 3 months ago (2015-11-09) imap

Retrieve mail and decode correctly

+3	I do the connection, I can grab the emails. but they are illegible. Maybe I have problem with imap_fetch_body. Any ideas?

• 2 Clarification requests

• 2. by Manuel Lemos - 3 months ago (2015-11-09) Reply

  DO you want to decode the retrieved messages so they can be rendered in a way the user understands?

• 3. by Dave Smith - 3 months ago (2015-11-09) in reply to comment 2 by Manuel Lemos Comment

  There is a known issue with imap, and this is probably what he is running into. According to the request, everything is in place, he is just is getting illegible content back, so instead of answering a technical question in a package recommendation section, it makes more sense to me to answer the question in the section where it would do most users the most good. But, that may just be me.

• 3. by Dave Smith - 3 months ago (2015-11-09) in reply to comment 2 by Manuel Lemos Comment

  There is a known issue with imap, and this is probably what he is running into. According to the request, everything is in place, he is just is getting illegible content back, so instead of answering a technical question in a package recommendation section, it makes more sense to me to answer the question in the section where it would do most users the most good. But, that may just be me.

• 4. by Manuel Lemos - 3 months ago (2015-11-10) in reply to comment 3 by Dave Smith Comment

  I am not aware of that issue. What is it?

  What I know is that imap extension was considered to be removed from PHP core because the base C library is not maintained.

  When he says illegible, it crosses my mind that the message parts may be base64 encoded even for text or HTML parts. That is why I asked if he wanted to decode the messages.

• 5. by Syd Chino Barrett - 3 months ago (2015-11-10) in reply to comment 4 by Manuel Lemos Comment

  Exactly. There is a problem with encode/decode. Problems with special char. The worse thing is the image, converted in text. BUT, at the end I used the options of imap_fetchbody

  0 - Message header 1 - MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE 1.1 - TEXT/PLAIN 1.2 - TEXT/HTML 2 - MESSAGE/RFC822 (entire attached message) 2.0 - Attached message header 2.1 - TEXT/PLAIN 2.2 - TEXT/HTML 2.3 - file.ext

  with the 1 option, I have plain text and for now is good. My problem was the insertion in a SQL Table with all strange charachters.

  I did a simple page.

  $oConn=new SQL();

  if($emails) {

  $output = '';
  

  rsort($emails);
  

  foreach($emails as $email_number) 
  {
      $header=imap_headerinfo($inbox,$email_number);
  

      $from = $header->from[0]->mailbox . "@" . $header->from[0]->host;
      $toaddress=$header->toaddress;
      $replyto=$header->reply_to[0]->mailbox."@".$header->reply_to[0]->host;
      $datetime=date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$header->udate);
      $subject=$header->subject;
  

      //remove the " from the $toaddress
      $toaddress = str_replace('"','',$toaddress);
  

      // echo '<strong>A:</strong> '.$toaddress.'<br>';
      // echo '<strong>Da:</strong> '.$from.'<br>';
      // echo '<strong>Oggetto:</strong> '.$subject.'<br>';
      // echo '<strong>Data:</strong> '.$datetime.'<br>';
  

      $message = (imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,1));
  	
  	/*0 - Message header
  	1 - MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE
  	1.1 - TEXT/PLAIN
  	1.2 - TEXT/HTML
  	2 - MESSAGE/RFC822 (entire attached message)
  	2.0 - Attached message header
  	2.1 - TEXT/PLAIN
  	2.2 - TEXT/HTML
  	2.3 - file.ext*/
  	
  	
      if($message == '')
      {
          $message = (imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,1));
      }
  	
  	$ett = between('ETT :', 'Telefonico :', $message);
  	$telefonico = between('Telefonico :', 'Nome cliente :', $message );
  	$cliente  = between('Nome cliente :', 'Recapito :', $message );
  	$recapito  = between('Recapito :', 'indirizzo :', $message );
  	$indirizzo  = between('indirizzo :', 'Note :', $message );
  	$note  = after('Note :', $message );
  	
  	//echo "$ett<br>";
  	//echo "$telefonico<br>";
  	//echo "$cliente<br>";
  	//echo "$recapito<br>";		
  	//echo "$indirizzo<br>";
  	//echo "$note<br>";
  	
  	
  	$query  = " INSERT INTO Onfield.dbo.Imap ( EmailTo, EmailFrom, Subject, message, ETT, Telefono, Cliente, Recapito, Indirizzo, Note) VALUES ( '".$toaddress."', '".$from."', '".$subject."', '".$message."', '".$ett."',	'".$telefonico."',	'".$cliente."','".$recapito."','".$indirizzo."', '".$note."' ) " ;
  	
  	$oConn->Query($query);
  	
  	//echo $message.'<br>' ;
  	//echo $query;	
   
  

  } }

  between and after are functions.

• 1. by Dave Smith - 3 months ago (2015-11-09) Reply

  I would post your question in the php specialists forum, you are more likely to get an answer there.

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by Manuel Lemos package author 11100 - 3 months ago (2015-11-10) Comment I think imap_fetch_body does not decode the messages. It may be encoded with quoted-printable or base64. Use this class and pass the whole message with headers and all parts, so it decodes each part for you. The class is tolerant to malformed messages. So if the sender sent a message with encoding mistakes, the class still parses the message as much as possible.

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• 1. by Syd Chino Barrett - 3 months ago (2015-11-11) Reply

  Thank you. I will try as soon as I have little time. I was testing the Imap function with "classic" mail, instead fortunately in my mailbox I will receive preformatted mail with Subject, and six information (Ett, telefonico, cliente, etc.), so I need just plain text for retrieving this information. Thank for your support, surely I will study your package.

  Have a nice day.