Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

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<?php

$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

//  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
$success = $imap->UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Connect('mail.chilkatsoft.com');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success != true) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
$fetchUids = true;

//  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
$messageSet = $imap->Search('ALL',$fetchUids);
if (is_null($messageSet)) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

$bundle = $imap->FetchHeaders($messageSet);
if (is_null($bundle)) {

    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
//  to a sub-directory.

for ($i = 0; $i <= $bundle->MessageCount - 1; $i++) {

    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);

    //  Does this email have attachments?
    //  Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    //  are not actually in the email object because
    //  we only downloaded headers.
    //  (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    //  calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    //  at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    $numAttach = $imap->GetMailNumAttach($email);

    if ($numAttach > 0) {
        //  Download the entire email and save the
        //  attachments. (Remember, we
        //  need to download the entire email because
        //  only the headers were previously downloaded.
        //  If the entire emails were downloaded by
        //  calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        //  this would not be necessary.

        //  The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        //  headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        //  to get the UID from the email object.
        $uidStr = $email->getHeaderField('ckx-imap-uid');
        $uid = $uidStr;

        $fullEmail = $imap->FetchSingle($uid,true);
        if (!(is_null($fullEmail))) {
            $fullEmail->SaveAllAttachments('attachmentsDir');

        }

        for ($j = 0; $j <= $numAttach - 1; $j++) {
            $filename = $imap->getMailAttachFilename($email,$j);
            print $filename . "\n";
        }

    }

}

//  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap->Disconnect();


?>