(PHP ActiveX) Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

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

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Imap')
$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
$imap->Ssl = 1;
$imap->Port = 993;
$success = $imap->Connect('imap.someMailServer.com');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
$fetchUids = 1;

// Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
// messageSet is a Chilkat.MessageSet
$messageSet = $imap->Search('ALL',$fetchUids);
if ($imap->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

// bundle is a Chilkat.EmailBundle
$bundle = $imap->FetchHeaders($messageSet);
if ($imap->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {

    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
// to a sub-directory.

for ($i = 0; $i <= $bundle->MessageCount - 1; $i++) {

    // email is a Chilkat.Email
    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);

    // Does this email have attachments?
    // Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    // are not actually in the email object because
    // we only downloaded headers.
    // (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    // calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    // at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    $numAttach = $imap->GetMailNumAttach($email);

    if ($numAttach > 0) {
        // Download the entire email and save the
        // attachments. (Remember, we 
        // need to download the entire email because
        // only the headers were previously downloaded.
        // If the entire emails were downloaded by
        // calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        // this would not be necessary.

        // The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        // headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        // to get the UID from the email object.
        $uidStr = $email->getHeaderField('ckx-imap-uid');
        $uid = $uidStr;

        // fullEmail is a Chilkat.Email
        $fullEmail = $imap->FetchSingle($uid,1);
        if ($imap->LastMethodSuccess == 1) {
            $success = $fullEmail->SaveAllAttachments('attachmentsDir');

        }

        for ($j = 0; $j <= $numAttach - 1; $j++) {
            $filename = $imap->getMailAttachFilename($email,$j);
            print $filename . "\n";
        }

    }

}

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Disconnect();


?>