eMail Attachment - Help Needed

[modpluz]

can anyone pls show me how to extract an attachment from an email message.

[Kesmai]

lets see that you atleast tried it yourself, what have you got and we'll help you fix it.

[modpluz]

welcome to the forums Kesmai

back to your response...i needed some professional help on how to do that(that's why i posted my problem).
because i don't know how to do it.

[john tindell]

The e-mail is split up using content bondaries, extract the boundary information from the header and then split the message up using that. Do you know how e-mail messages are formatted?

[modpluz]

thanks john

Do you know how e-mail messages are formatted?

not at all

and also i can see the boundaries but how do i use it to split them

[CornedBee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

At the bottom there are also lots of useful links.

As for processing the message, you need to do string processing with PHP.

[modpluz]

yeah i've read that before and i'm still trying to figure out what to do with the info on that page.

ok now, i think i've gotten to a part where i've been able to differentiate the message body from the attachment(its working fine) and also i've been able to decode the attachments(using base64_decode) and whats bothering me now is that, it'll only decode 2 of 4 attachments(i.e 1 .gif file, 1 .png file, 1 .rtf file and 1 .zip archive respectively).

so in a nutshell, it only decoded the .GIF and .PNG correctly while the 2 others where decoded badly(or wrongly).