How to use IMAP in PHP to fetch mail body content?

Question

I can't fetch email body content.

This is my code

<?php
/* connect to server */
$hostname = '{myserver/pop3/novalidate-cert}INBOX';
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';

/* try to connect */
$inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Tiriyo: ' . imap_last_error());
//echo $inbox;
/* grab emails */
$emails = imap_search($inbox,'ALL');


/* if emails are returned, cycle through each... */
if($emails) {

  /* begin output var */
  $output = '';

  /* put the newest emails on top */
  rsort($emails);

  /* for every email... */
  foreach($emails as $email_number) {
    //$email_number=$emails[0];
//print_r($emails);
    /* get information specific to this email */
    $overview = imap_fetch_overview($inbox,$email_number,0);
    $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);

    /* output the email header information */
    $output.= '<div class="toggler '.($overview[0]->seen ? 'read' : 'unread').'">';
    $output.= '<span class="subject">'.$overview[0]->subject.'</span> ';
    $output.= '<span class="from">'.$overview[0]->from.'</span>';
    $output.= '<span class="date">on '.$overview[0]->date.'</span>';
    $output.= '</div>';

    /* output the email body */
    $output.= '<div class="body">'.$message.'</div>';
  }

  echo $output;
}

/* close the connection */
imap_close($inbox);
?>

When I use to fetch email from Gmail, the email body content is displayed, but once I use my mail server, I can't fetch the body content of email.

Can you help me fix this problem?

Tested it; your script is working fine with Gmail as you said. The errors are probably coming from your mail server. Are there any other details you can provide? — Ben, Mar 03 '11 at 07:35
Probably a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5170489/php5-imap-i-aint-got-no-body — dkarp, Mar 03 '11 at 15:31
Try https://github.com/MonstaApps/PHP-IMAP-Fetcher. Pipe or fetch emails, log to MySQL, and save attachments. — Daniel Williams, Dec 20 '17 at 01:06

score 46 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '11 at 10:07

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I had found solution, Error is with this line

$message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);

Now, I am using

$message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number, 1.2);

To receive body content in text/html format

Below i had given datails of available options. This might some one

()Root Message Part (multipart/related)
(1) The text parts of the message (multipart/alternative)
(1.1) Plain text version (text/plain)
(1.2) HTML version (text/html)
(2) The background stationary (image/gif)

answered Mar 04 '11 at 10:07

Mohan Ram

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Thanks, I've been searching the exact same thing... That's why is also good to check the docs jaja... I just copy/paste an example from Internet and expected to work... – Beto Aveiga Jun 09 '16 at 22:17
look up fetch_structure, u need to decode the message if it is encoded. – Andrew Sep 15 '17 at 13:23

tobyS · Answer 2 · 2011-03-03T15:59:00.290

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The Zeta Mail component allows much more convenient fetching of mails from IMAP and POP and can parses the incoming emails into a nice and clean object structure so you can handle it easily.

edited Mar 03 '11 at 15:59

answered Mar 03 '11 at 07:38

tobyS

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He's using POP, not IMAP. Check the first parameter to the `imap_open` call. – dkarp Mar 03 '11 at 15:36
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Sorry, got that wrong. However, works with POP too: http://incubator.apache.org/zetacomponents/documentation/trunk/Mail/tutorial.html#retrieving-mail-using-pop3 – tobyS Mar 03 '11 at 15:47
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I updated my answer to reflect that IMAP and POP is both possible. – tobyS Mar 03 '11 at 15:59

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