Posted by Steve on 09/19/07 03:08

"Harold Philips" <haroldphilips@adcl.biz> wrote in message
news:46f08535$0$16274$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
>
> "Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
> news:I70Ii.560$W76.373@newsfe12.lga...
>>
>> "Harold Philips" <haroldphilips@adcl.biz> wrote in message
>> news:46f06963$0$16321$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of an easy way to access the body of an email in PHP?
>>> I have a box with a bunch of one line email in it. All I need to
>>> retreive is the senders email address and the body. Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harold
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> if you look at the rfc for email, you'll find out what the tags are.
>> parse those for their respective values. the body is, by rfc, is
>> seperated from the header by two new line characters...and is the last
>> portion of the email. if you don't like reading the rfc, save an email as
>> a text file. open the text file in a text editor. look for the tags you
>> expect to parse...then create the code to do your parsing.
>>
>> that is the 'easy' way...but far from an 'easy button'. ;^)
>
> Thank you for the reply. Definately not the "easy" button but a lot closer
> to it than I was.

are you comfortable with parsing?

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