Sounds like they all hit the same wall you have hit... Could be an opportunity... :-) On Thu, January 19, 2006 4:55 pm, Geoff wrote: >> It seems to me that if you looked at the raw email and found the >> boundary, and focused on the only mime-types you care about, you'd >> be able to hack the file pretty easily... > > I just may have to do that. One problem though is that many mails > are encoded in some way (I mean byte-encoding, like base 64) and I > was hoping to make use of the transparent decoding capability of a > class or library made to do that sort of thing. But if I cannot, > then yours is the approach I will probably use. > >> All them lawyerly crapola signatures outside the control of the >> actual user implies that there is SOME kind of software available >> to do it... > > ...but many of them are in commercial packages, or are plugins to > MSExchange or similar. And most of the open-source ones only stick > the footer in the first piece of text/plain that they find, without > being aware of multiparts. > > Thanks, > > Geoff. > > > On 19 Jan 2006 at 16:38, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> All them lawyerly crapola signatures outside the control of the >> actual >> user implies that there is SOME kind of software available to do >> it... >> >> It seems to me that if you looked at the raw email and found the >> boundary, and focused on the only mime-types you care about, you'd >> be >> able to hack the file pretty easily... >> >> And if it's not mime-encoded, it's just text, and a simple fopen($x, >> 'a'); fwrite($x, $sig); fclose($x); would do it. >> >> Maybe I'm over-simplifying something? >> >> >> On Thu, January 19, 2006 4:22 pm, Geoff wrote: >> > Nobody got any ideas on this? I would be interested to hear from >> > anyone who has successfully adjusted parts of an email message >> while >> > it is in transit, by ANY method. I'm getting desparate and will >> try >> > anything, even if it is not 100% PHP. >> > >> > All ideas, suggestions greatly appreciated. >> > >> > Geoff. >> > >> > >> > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- >> > From: Geoff <php-general@xxxxxxx> >> > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > Subject: inserting text into a mime message >> > Date sent: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:51:37 +0200 >> > >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I've been searching the archives for help on this, but have come >> up >> > empty-handed. Here's the thing: >> > >> > I'm using a PHP script to parse every message coming through a >> > mailserver. The server invokes my script for each message, giving >> it >> > a filename containing the full raw text of the email. The script >> > needs to modify the raw message file, inserting a footer (some >> > trailing text, eg: a disclaimer) at the end of each part of >> readable >> > message. It doesn't touch file attachments, but it needs to insert >> > the footer in any plaintext, HTML text or both (if they exist). >> > >> > There are so many different mime options and encoding types that >> it >> > seemed like re-inventing the wheel to try working with only the >> raw >> > message text, so instead I decided to use the PEAR Mail_mimeDecode >> > module, which returns a very nice object array of all the parts, >> > decoded and ready for use. >> > >> > It's no problem going through this and inserting the footer >> wherever >> > it is needed. That much I've done. >> > >> > My problem is trying to rebuild that object array (the output of >> the >> > Mail_mimeDecode::decode() function) back into its raw form once >> > again, so that I can write the modified raw text back to the >> message >> > file and the email can go on its way. >> > >> > Another complication is that except for the insertion of the >> footer, >> > I cannot modify the original message. All the headers, dates, >> > receive-paths, etc, must remain unchanged. >> > >> > Has anybody ever done anything like this before - re-encoding a >> > message that had been decoded by Mail_mimeDecode::decode()? I've >> > looked at the encode() function, but it seems to be used for >> making >> > a simple message from scratch (with just one body part), it is not >> > really the opposite of decode(). [I may be wrong about this - >> there >> > are no examples in the PEAR manual]. >> > >> > I'm not hung up about what to use, it doesn't have to be PEAR, I >> > will use any library or code that will do the job. Alternatively, >> if >> > it is possible to do this with encode(), I would love to see an >> > example, as I couldn't get it to work that way myself. >> > >> > Many thanks. >> > >> > Geoff. >> > >> > ------- End of forwarded message ------- >> > >> > -- >> > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Like Music? >> http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >> >> !DSPAM:43d0236364872042218820! >> > > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
