How to parse a .eml file in php?

Question

How to parse a .eml file in php? Is there any PHP libriary or PHP extension ?

I want to display the mail header information such as sender, receiver, title, attachement and eml body content in browser.

That's not a question but a google request. - If you're looking for code: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime/ — hakre, Jul 10 '12 at 08:23
I agree with Hakre, please explain what you've attempted to do so far.. — Luceos, Jul 10 '12 at 08:25

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 08:29

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There are a couple of ways to do it. One way is to simply do it yourself, it's not that complicated.

Otherwise, you might want to have a look at the Mailparse library:

And there is also this one:

answered Jul 10 '12 at 08:29

Doa

but even the php extension mailparse in php.net doesn't works well with some eml file.I can not get eml header information such as subject,time,sender　when the eml file source like this ------------Return-Path: Delivered-To:aa@mail.com.cn*X-WM-Delivered:bb@mail.com.cn ....------------- the is not blank line between erver item. so can not be parsed – maarten Jul 12 '12 at 08:31
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At last I find a php libaray here http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3169-PHP-Decode-MIME-e-mail-messages.html but it doesn't work well.it can not parse eml file when the source of eml file header item does not have break line. – maarten Jul 12 '12 at 08:39
`Return-Path: Delivered-To: test@mail.com.cn X-WM-Delivered: test@mail.com.cn Delivered-To: receive@mail.com.cn X-WM-Delivered: all@mail.com.cn Received: from PC-201104191348 ([211.154.169.179]) (envelope-sender ) by 125.208.8.125 with ESMTP Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:28:16 +0800 From: "test" Subject: =?gb2312?B?ufq80s2zvMa+1jIwMTLE6jfUws+1zbPJ/by2z+7Ev82o1qo=?= Message-ID: <201207031228157969470@mail.com.cn> X-mailer: Foxmail 6, 15, 201, 23 [cn] Mime-Version: 1.0` – maarten Jul 12 '12 at 10:12
There is a missing > here: "To: "all" – Doa Jul 12 '12 at 11:56

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '21 at 09:18

This is what I use:

composer require php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser

And then PHP:

$parser = new \PhpMimeMailParser\Parser();
$emailFile = 'myEmailFile.eml';
$parser->setText(file_get_contents($emailFile));

Then, to get addresses:

$toAddressesQ = $parser->getAddresses('to');

Or the body:

$text = $parser->getMessageBody('text');
$html = $parser->getMessageBody('html');

Or the header:

$subject = $parser->getHeader('subject');

Or the attachments:

$attachments = $parser->getAttachments();

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