By using imap_fetchbody() you may run in trouble by using too much memory. Using imap_savebody() may prevent this.
But the content will be encoded, in other words it is useless. Adding a filter can help here.
<?php
$whandle = fopen('./incomming/tmp.tif','w');
stream_filter_append($whandle,
'convert.base64-decode',STREAM_FILTER_WRITE);
imap_savebody ($mbox, $whandle, $i, $partcounter++);
fclose($whandle);
?>
NOTE: To find the proper filter you need to check the encoding given by the structure of the body.
imap_savebody
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3, PHP 7, PHP 8)
imap_savebody — Save a specific body section to a file
Description
imap_savebody(
IMAP\Connection
resource|string|int
int
string
int
): bool
IMAP\Connection
$imap,resource|string|int
$file,int
$message_num,string
$section = "",int
$flags = 0): bool
Saves a part or the whole body of the specified message.
Parameters
-
imap -
An IMAP\Connection instance.
-
file -
The path to the saved file as a string, or a valid file descriptor returned by fopen().
-
message_num -
The message number
-
section -
The part number. It is a string of integers delimited by period which index into a body part list as per the IMAP4 specification
-
flags -
A bitmask with one or more of the following:
-
FT_UID- Themessage_numis a UID -
FT_PEEK- Do not set the \Seen flag if not already set -
FT_INTERNAL- The return string is in internal format, will not canonicalize to CRLF.
-
Return Values
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
The imap parameter expects an IMAP\Connection
instance now; previously, a valid imap resource was expected.
|
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
anon ¶
12 years ago
janus at forty-seven dot info ¶
15 years ago
It seems that imap_savebody saves attachments with special characters above ascii 127 as quoted printable.
But if you need it in utf8, you may use the imap_qprint function after the attachment is saved:
<?php
$tFile = "/path/to/attachment";
$tFileOutput="";
$tFileHandle = fopen($tFile, "r");
//get the content of the file into a string
while(!feof($tFileHandle))
$tFileOutput = $tFileOutput . fgets($tFileHandle, 4096);
fclose ($tFileHandle);
$tFileHandle = fopen($tFile, "w");
//write the new 8Bit string to the file
fwrite($tFileHandle, imap_qprint($tFileOutput));
fclose ($tFileHandle);
?>
technocraze at gmail dot com ¶
16 years ago
I tried to use this function. But it seems it requires php_zip.dll to be load.. i got the php errror like below.
[20-Dec-2007 13:38:17] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './php_zip.dll' - ./php_zip.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[20-Dec-2007 13:38:17] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function imap_savebody() in /opt/oss/share/apache2/htdocs/blogtest/wp-inst/batch/pop3_mail.php on line 153
stupergenius at gmail dot com ¶
17 years ago
This function will save ALL information from the email if the part number is left out. Pretty handy for archiving.
