Comments on: Download POP3/IMAP Email Attachments with PHP

By: chris@smsdam

chris@smsdam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:10:31 +0000

Great script and fix too. I already have incoming mail attachments neatly stored in a directory . Writing code to use them as the need arises.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:43:31 +0000

I ready across the code also and am trying to run it but get these errors over and over as it reads email from my inbox.

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$parts in /usr/local/websites/test/mobile-reader/attachmentread.class.php on line 50

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$disposition in /usr/local/websites/test/mobile-reader/attachmentread.class.php on line 57

By: Seth Sym

Seth Sym — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:45 +0000

This is exactly what I needed; my office sends files back and forth (inefficient i know) and this will save some time for sure.

By: heppu

heppu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:28 +0000

@Henrique’s great tip doesn’t work for me. No image saved (folder ftp –> 777). Any other solution?

For my email this code mark’s email as read, and delete work’s fine, if delete_emails=”true”..

By: P2M

P2M — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:55 +0000

@Henrique

yess I have the same and make your change and it work fine now !!

By: Henrique

Henrique — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:15:31 +0000

Finally… After all this time, a little tweaks saved the day.

For some reason the $parts weren’t being read correctly, saying all emails had 0 parts. I then removed FT_UID from the imap_fetchstructure line, leaving it like this:

$structure = imap_fetchstructure($mbox, $jk);

but then $part->disposition wasn’t reading “attachment” for attachments. I print_r the array and found out the attachments disposition were reading as “inline”. I have no idea of all of this means, but I changed the following line from:

if($part->disposition == “ATTACHMENT”) {

if($part->disposition == “inline”) {

and it’s working perfectly now.

Anyway, if anyone is having the same problem I was, try changing those lines and you should be all set.

By: Henrique

Henrique — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:13:14 +0000

Kareem, did you ever figure out what your problem was? It’s happening the same thing here.
First I thought the permissions to the directory weren’t right, until I chmod a+rwx on it and it still won’t work.
Any ideas?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:51:36 +0000

This could be very useful for anyone who gets sent a ton of attachments and needs to have them handy down the road.

By: larry

larry — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:07:04 +0000

Any body! I use Kodak EasyShare software, burning CD/DVD without any problem for a long time. Now, when I try to do the same operatin I get message:’IMAP12 is not installed on this machine” and cant do anything father. What is IMAP12 has to do with this????

By: Kareem

Kareem — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:16:30 +0000

I’ve been trying to get this to work, but all it does is delete the file from the gmail inbox.

Here’s my code:

function getEmailFile($directory) {
$attachment = new ReadAttachment;
$attachment->getdata(‘{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX’, ‘address@gmail.com’, ‘password’, ‘xml/’.$directory, ‘false’);
}

getEmailFile(‘visitors’);

Any help would be greatly appreciated!