Posted by Richard Heyes on 12/15/05 12:14

Oli Howson wrote:
> I'm working on a private webmail (and other) system, and am struggling a
> little with MIME mails. I've got a script to save all the attachments, but
> the thing I can't figure out is how I decide which "part" is the main email
> message itself (and hence which to display).
>
> Oh and cheers for the info someone gave me the other day, it inspired me to
> just connect to the pop3 server using a raw socket, SOOOOO much easier!!!

Than what? The imap extension is faster and has parsing functionality
built in.

Also there's a PEAR Net_POP3 library if you insist on using sockets
which handles lots of menial tasks for you.

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Richard Heyes
http://www.phpguru.org

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