php-mime-mail-parser

A fully tested mailparse extension wrapper for PHP 5.4+

Why?

This extension can be used to...

• Parse and read email from Postfix
• Create webmail
• Store email information such a subject, HTML body, attachments, and etc. into a database

Is it reliable?

Yes. All known issues have been reproduced, fixed and tested.

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How do I install it?

The easiest way is via Composer.

To install the latest version of PHP MIME Mail Parser, run the command below:

composer require php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser

Requirements

The following versions of PHP are supported:

• PHP 5.4
• PHP 5.5
• PHP 5.6
• PHP 7
• HHVM

Make sure you have the mailparse extension (http://php.net/manual/en/book.mailparse.php) properly installed:

pecl install mailparse      		#PHP Version = 7
pecl install mailparse-2.1.6		#PHP Version < 7

If you have trouble installing mailparse on Ubuntu, take a look at this tutorial.

Also note that you may need to create /etc/php5/mods-available/mailparse.ini file and include the line extension=mailparse.so. Then run sudo php5enmod mailparse to enable it.

On Windows, you need to download mailparse DLL from http://pecl.php.net/package/mailparse and add the line "extension=php_mailparse.dll" to php.ini accordingly.

How do I use it?

<?php
// Include the library first
require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$path = 'path/to/mail.txt';
$Parser = new PhpMimeMailParser\Parser();

// There are four methods available to indicate which mime mail to parse.
// You only need to use one of the following four:

// 1. Specify a file path to the mime mail.
$Parser->setPath($path); 

// 2. Specify a php file resource (stream) to the mime mail.
$Parser->setStream(fopen($path, "r"));

// 3. Specify the raw mime mail text.
$Parser->setText(file_get_contents($path));

// 4.  Specify a stream to work with mail server
$Parser->setStream(fopen("php://stdin", "r"));

// Once we've indicated where to find the mail, we can parse out the data
$to = $Parser->getHeader('to');             // "test" <test@example.com>, "test2" <test2@example.com>
$addressesTo = $Parser->getAddresses('to'); //Return an array : [[test, test@example.com, false],[test2, test2@example.com, false]]

$from = $Parser->getHeader('from');             // "test" <test@example.com>
$addressesFrom = $Parser->getAddresses('from'); //Return an array : test, test@example.com, false

$subject = $Parser->getHeader('subject');

$text = $Parser->getMessageBody('text');

$html = $Parser->getMessageBody('html');
$htmlEmbedded = $Parser->getMessageBody('htmlEmbedded'); //HTML Body included data

$stringHeaders = $Parser->getHeadersRaw();	// Get all headers as a string, no charset conversion
$arrayHeaders = $Parser->getHeaders();		// Get all headers as an array, with charset conversion

// Pass in a writeable path to save attachments
$attach_dir = '/path/to/save/attachments/'; 	// Be sure to include the trailing slash
$include_inline = true;  			// Optional argument to include inline attachments (default: true)
$Parser->saveAttachments($attach_dir [,$include_inline]);

// Get an array of Attachment items from $Parser
$attachments = $Parser->getAttachments([$include_inline]);

//  Loop through all the Attachments
if (count($attachments) > 0) {
	foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
		echo 'Filename : '.$attachment->getFilename().'<br />'; // logo.jpg
		echo 'Filesize : '.filesize($attach_dir.$attachment->getFilename()).'<br />'; // 1000
		echo 'Filetype : '.$attachment->getContentType().'<br />'; // image/jpeg
		echo 'MIME part string : '.$attachment->getMimePartStr().'<br />'; // (the whole MIME part of the attachment)
	}
}

?>

Next you need to forward emails to this script above. For that I'm using Postfix like a mail server, you need to configure /etc/postfix/master.cf

Add this line at the end of the file (specify myhook to send all emails to the script test.php)

myhook unix - n n - - pipe
  				flags=F user=www-data argv=php -c /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini -f /var/www/test.php ${sender} ${size} ${recipient}

Edit this line (register myhook)

smtp      inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
        			-o content_filter=myhook:dummy

The php script must use the fourth method to work with this configuration.

Can I contribute?

Feel free to contribute!

git clone https://github.com/php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser
cd php-mime-mail-parser
composer install
./vendor/bin/phpunit

If you report an issue, please provide the raw email that triggered it. This helps us reproduce the issue and fix it more quickly.

License

The php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license