PHP ActiveX

Load .eml and Examine the Structure, Attachments, and Related Items

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Demonstrates how to load examine the MIME structure of a .eml, and also examine the attachment and related item filenames, attached messages, and multipart/report and DSN information. PHP ActiveX

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$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$emlPath = 'C:/AAWorkarea/beatrix/roesner.eml';

$mime = new COM("Chilkat.Mime");

$success = $mime->LoadMimeFile($emlPath);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print '---- MIME structure ----' . "\n";
print $mime->getStructure('text') . "\n";
print '------------------------' . "\n";

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$success = $email->LoadEml($emlPath);

// Was this a signed and/or encrypted email?
// If so, then loading the .eml automatically unwraps
// (i.e. verifies signatures and decrypts) and the resultant
// email is what existed prior to signing/encrypting.
print 'Email was Signed: ' . $email->ReceivedSigned . "\n";
print 'Email was Encrypted: ' . $email->ReceivedEncrypted . "\n";
if ($email->ReceivedSigned == 1) {
    print 'Signature(s) valid = ' . $email->SignaturesValid . "\n";
}

if ($email->ReceivedEncrypted == 1) {
    print 'Decrypted successfully = ' . $email->Decrypted . "\n";
}

$i = 0;
$numAttach = $email->NumAttachments;
print 'Number of attachments = ' . $numAttach . "\n";

while ($i < $numAttach) {
    print '---- Attachment ' . $i . "\n";

    // Examine the filename (if any)
    print 'filename: ' . $email->getAttachmentFilename($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-ID (if any)
    print 'Content-ID: ' . $email->getAttachmentContentID($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-type
    print 'Content-Type: ' . $email->getAttachmentContentType($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-disposition
    print 'Content-Disposition' . $email->getAttachmentHeader($i,'content-disposition') . "\n";
    // Examine the attachment size:
    print 'Size (in bytes) of the attachment: ' . $email->GetAttachmentSize($i) . "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}

print '--' . "\n";

// Now for the related items.

// Note: A MIME sub-part can potentially be both a related item AND an attachment.
// The typical case is when the item is contained under the multipart/related enclosure and 
// the item also has a "Content-Disposition" header indicating "attachment".
// The location within multipart/related makes it a "related item", yet the Content-Disposition can also make it semantically an attachment.
// Related items and attachments are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

$numRelated = $email->NumRelatedItems;
print 'Number of related items = ' . $numRelated . "\n";
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numRelated) {
    print '---- Related Item ' . $i . "\n";

    // Examine the filename (if any)
    print 'filename: ' . $email->getRelatedFilename($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-ID (if any)
    print 'Content-ID: ' . $email->getRelatedContentID($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-type
    print 'Content-Type: ' . $email->getRelatedContentType($i) . "\n";
    // Examine the content-location (if any)
    print 'Content-Location' . $email->getRelatedContentLocation($i) . "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}

// The email could also have attached messages.
// An attached message is another email that was attached to this email.
$em = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$numAttachedMessages = $email->NumAttachedMessages;
print 'Number of attached messages = ' . $numAttachedMessages . "\n";
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numAttachedMessages) {
    print '---- Attached message ' . $i . "\n";

    // Examine the attached email
    $email->GetAttachedEmail($i,$em);
    print 'from: ' . $em->From . "\n";
    print 'subject: ' . $em->Subject . "\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}

// An email could also be a multipart/report email. 
// This is a DSN (Delivery Status Notification)
// The NumReports property indicates how many "reports" exist.
$numReports = $email->NumReports;
print 'Number of reports = ' . $numReports . "\n";
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numReports) {
    print '---- Report ' . $i . "\n";
    // Get the raw report data...
    print $email->getReport($i) . "\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}

// If the email is a multipart/report, then the information
// from the message/delivery-status part of the email can be retrieved:
if ($email->IsMultipartReport() == 1) {

    print '--- Delivery Status Information:' . "\n";
    print 'Status: ' . $email->getDeliveryStatusInfo('Status') . "\n";
    print 'Action: ' . $email->getDeliveryStatusInfo('Action') . "\n";
    print 'Reporting-MTA: ' . $email->getDeliveryStatusInfo('Reporting-MTA') . "\n";

    $jsonDsnInfo = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
    $email->GetDsnInfo($jsonDsnInfo);
    $jsonDsnInfo->EmitCompact = 0;
    print $jsonDsnInfo->emit() . "\n";
}


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