Have you considered using the IMAP extension? That would solve pretty
much all your problems with regards to "interpreting" the contents of a
message. It's a bit slow, though.
As for searching the hrefs and imgs, you can easily get away with a
couple of regular expressions.
Hope this helps.
Marco
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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:57, Peter Beckman wrote:
> Hey Folks:
>
> I admit, I haven't searched for this anywhere yet, but I thought I'd ask
> for opinions first.
>
> I'm looking to parse an email. Some emails are HTML, some are not.
>
> What I want to do with an email is:
>
> 1. Split the headers from the body
> 2. Remove MIME attachments that aren't txt or html from the body
> 3. Grab all the HREF urls in the body as well as image SRCes (fully
>qualified, so if there is a "http://www.purplecow.com/hhs/
>img http://purplecow.com/gfx/icons/new.gif
>
> Are there any good libraries of functions that would aid me in this effort?
> The idea is to store the headers in the DB, store the body in another
> table, and store hrefs and image URLs in another table. The URLs will be
> used to see if there are redirects to somewhere else and make a "parent"
> association.
>
> Any thoughts, pointers, urls or code would be appreciated!
>
> Peter
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