PHP

Remove a MIME Header Field

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.RemoveHeaderField method, which removes header fields whose name matches case-insensitively. The first argument is the field name and the second (bAllOccurrences) selects whether to remove all matches or only the first. It is a void method.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: Stripping headers is common when reprocessing a message — removing spam-scoring X- headers, clearing an old Content-Length before re-serializing, or deleting routing headers before forwarding. The all-occurrences flag matters for headers that can repeat: pass true to purge every instance, or false to drop just the first.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Mime;

$mime = new Mime();
try {
    $mime->LoadMimeFile('qa_data/message.eml');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// Remove header fields whose name matches (case-insensitively).  The 1st argument is the field
// name and the 2nd (bAllOccurrences) selects whether to remove all matches or only the first.
// RemoveHeaderField is a void method.

// Remove every X-Spam-Status header.
$bAllOccurrences = true;
$mime->RemoveHeaderField('X-Spam-Status', $bAllOccurrences);

echo "Removed the header field(s).\n";