Posted by Harold Philips on 09/19/07 03:24

>>>> 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

>>> 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?

No, I'm not. I am almost terrified of regular expressions. lol
It sucks to because all I need is to get the body of the email and the
sender.
Why do you as?

Harold



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