Comments on: Recieve E-mail and Save Attachments with a PHP script

By: stuporglue

stuporglue — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:05:38 +0000

Lucky,

I have never run PHP on Windows. The first problem is going to be setting up the email server to pipe emails through the script. Even on Linux setting this script up correctly is an intermediate task. You need to have some knowledge of PHP, MySQL, file permissions and how your mail client works.

If you do get it working on Windows please write about it and send me a link. I would be interested to see how it is done — as I said, I haven’t run PHP on Windows.

By: Lucky Dj

Lucky Dj — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:49:50 +0000

Hi, I’m Lucky from Pancasila University Jakarta I’m new in php but I’m very interesting on it. My apache server running on windows and i“v followed your instruction about the project and I want to add it into our web programm. We have an error message while we run those script, can you tell me (email me perhaps) the steps to setting the project until it will run well.
Thnak You for Your understanding
( I’m sory about my english, I’m not good at)

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By: Craig Hopson

Craig Hopson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:09:11 +0000

ok the error was due to #!/usr/bin/php -q for my server it should be
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q this has stopped the error but still only works with G-mail attachments and no other E-mail accounts

By: Craig Hopson

Craig Hopson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:30:54 +0000

Yes still waiting on hosting due to Easter weekend although I’m getting this error it’s I don’t think it’s stopping the attachments from being saved any idea why the attachment side of things isn’t working for me??

By: kent

kent — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:54:26 +0000

Your code works great with GMAIL. Congrats and thanks for sharing

All attachments save to the database just fine, except when you try to send an email using outlook, iphone or any other email client.. Has anyone figured out what needs to be updated so we can successfully parse all emails received without needing a plugin or .class regardless of the email client used.

By: stuporglue

stuporglue — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:43:23 +0000

You’re going to need more than a couple simple commands to understand what’s going on. Head over to http://tizag.com/phpT/ and dig in. It’ll be good for you. :-)

By: Xianan

Xianan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:55:34 +0000

oh, coz of my little knowledge of php/mySQL basics, its would be perfect if u include simple php commands that need to show msgs as a list with their body and attachment in the web

By: stuporglue

stuporglue — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:13:20 +0000

It could either be:

a) An incompatibility with the formatting of the emails being sent and the PHP code. I don’t have outlook, so I haven’t been able to test that format.

b) File permission or path issues on the server. If the user the script runs as doesn’t have permissions for the directory you’re trying to save to, it won’t be able to save the file.

c) Something else

I would guess that (b) is slightly more likely than (a), but (a) is still a good candidate.

By: stuporglue

stuporglue — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:03:11 +0000

PHP command line and PHP’s Apache module often have separate config files. It sounds like something isn’t configured quite right for the command line version.