| Parsing mbox files with Windows Php [message #181666] |
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:57  |
Chuck Anderson
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Registered: September 2010
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I have been slowly building a Php/MySQL based IMAP email client. The
Php IMAP functions are well documented and easy to use. I store
messages in a MySQL database (attachments in the file system) for ease
of organization, maintenance, backup and searching. I like it enough
that I want to add my existing archive of email in Thunderbird. To do
so, I need to parse mbox files and extract message headers, parts, and
attachments. Thankfully, the Php IMAP functions can be used to open and
parse an mbox file (or even a single .eml file) as well as opening a
stream to the server.
Using this functionality I can write a script to run on my WAMP
development machine that reads the Thunderbird folder structure, parses
the mbox files and saves individual messages along with their
folder/subfolder path in the Thunderbird folder hierarchy. It should be
as easy as pointing it to the top of the folder structure and letting it
do all the work from there.
Unfortunately, it appears that the Windows Php binary is unable to
connect to an mbox file, so to make my job easy, I would have to upload
the entire folder structure (it is about 200MBs) to my shared host and
process it there. I would much rather "toy around" with this process on
my Windows development machine and not on the shared host.
There is a Php bug filed for this, but it was determined that the
"underlying c-client function is unable to open a file."
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39880 - closed as "not a bug."
$mbox = imap_open('pathto/mboxfile', '', '') // works on *nix, but not
on Windows.
- Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream mboxfiles/Inbox ....
- Notice: Unknown: Can't open mailbox mboxfiles/Inbox: no such mailbox
(errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0.
(This second error is the one coming from the underlying c-client
function.)
I believe this is a dead end but want to check if anyone has happened to
figure out a way to make this work in Windows - or if you know of a
separate mbox file parser that would be fairly simple to integrate with
my current Php IMAP based scripts - dependent on the output of
imap_fetchstructure, imap_headerinfo, imap_fetchbody(parts).
If not, I will probably build a form that lets me select individual
(smaller) sections of the folder hierarchy to process individually
(tedious and prone to error).
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