Re: Handling Incoming Email Attachments

Hello,

on 05/06/2008 06:36 AM Nirmal Jayasinghe said the following:
> hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out a way to manipulate incoming email attachments with
> PHP. There'll be a special email address to which the emails with the
> attachments would be sent, with a number specified in the subject line. What
> I need to do is to grab the attachment (a photo), rename it with the number
> specified in the subject line, and move it onto a specific folder on the Web
> server [which will be running LAMP].
> 
> I couldn't find any online material describing how to manipulate incoming
> mail attachments. Can someone give an idea?

You may want to try this MIME parser class. It can parse the e-mail
messages of any size and optionally save the attachments to files in a
directory of your choice.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser

If want to parse messages retrieved from a POP3 mailbox, you may also
want to use in conjunction this POP3 class which comes with a stream
wrapper that lets you access messages in the POP3 mailbox as if they
were files. You can use file names like this: pop3://pop.server.com/1 .

http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class

When used in conjunction, these two classes allow you to extract
attachements from messages of any size without exceeding your PHP memory
limits.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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