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