[thelist] Reading emails on the fly.........

Gijs van Tulder evolt at gmx.net
Tue May 21 15:17:00 CDT 2002


Chris,

I recently wrote something like you want. Here's the code, take a look at.
Perhaps it's useful.




#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php

// read from stdin
$fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email = "";
while (!feof($fd)) {
    $email .= fread($fd, 1024);
}
fclose($fd);


// handle email
$lines = explode("\n", $email);

// empty vars
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$splittingheaders = true;

for ($i=0; $i<count($lines); $i++) {
    if ($splittingheaders) {
        // this is a header
        $headers .= $lines[$i]."\n";

        // look out for special headers
        if (preg_match("/^Subject: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $subject = $matches[1];
        }
        if (preg_match("/^From: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $from = $matches[1];
        }
    } else {
        // not a header, but message
        $message .= $lines[$i]."\n";
    }

    if (trim($regels[$i])=="") {
        // empty line, header section has ended
        $splittingheaders = false;
    }
}



// put info in database

?>






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