Read emails from SMTP - PHP

email.reader.class.php

<?php

class Email_reader {

	// imap server connection
	private $conn;

	// inbox storage and inbox message count
	public $inbox;
	public $msg_cnt;

	// email login credentials
	private $server;
	private $user;
	private $pass;
	private $port;

	// connect to the server and get the inbox emails
	function __construct( $user, $pass, $server = '127.0.0.1', $port = 25 ) {
		
		$this -> server = $server;
		$this -> port   = $port;
		$this -> pass = $pass;
		$this -> user = $user;
		
		$this->connect();
		$this->inbox();
	}

	// close the server connection
	function close() {
		$this->inbox = array();
		$this->msg_cnt = 0;

		$error = imap_errors();
		imap_alerts();
		if (count($error) > 1 || $error[0] != 'SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN') {
		  // More than 1 error or not the expected error
		  var_dump($error);
		  throw new Exception('IMAP error detected');
		}
		
		imap_close($this->conn);
	}

	// open the server connection
	// the imap_open function parameters will need to be changed for the particular server
	// these are laid out to connect to a Dreamhost IMAP server
	function connect() {
		$this->conn = @imap_open('{'.$this->server.'/notls}', $this->user, $this->pass);
	}

	// move the message to a new folder
	function move($msg_index, $folder='INBOX.Processed') {
		// move on server
		imap_mail_move($this->conn, $msg_index, $folder);
		imap_expunge($this->conn);

		// re-read the inbox
		$this->inbox();
	}

	// get a specific message (1 = first email, 2 = second email, etc.)
	function get($msg_index=NULL) {
		if (count($this->inbox) <= 0) {
			return array();
		}
		elseif ( ! is_null($msg_index) && isset($this->inbox[$msg_index])) {
			return $this->inbox[$msg_index];
		}

		return $this->inbox[0];
	}

	// read the inbox
	function inbox() {
		$this->msg_cnt = imap_num_msg($this->conn);

		$in = array();
		for($i = 1; $i <= $this->msg_cnt; $i++) {
			$in[] = array(
				'index'     => $i,
				'header'    => imap_headerinfo($this->conn, $i),
				'body'      => imap_body($this->conn, $i),
				'structure' => imap_fetchstructure($this->conn, $i)
			);
		}

		$this->inbox = $in;
	}


	function get_attachments( $email ) {
		
		$attachments = array();
		// check for attachments
		if ( isset( $email['structure']->parts ) && count( $email['structure']->parts ) ) {
			// loop through all attachments
			for ($i = 0; $i < count($email['structure']->parts); $i++) {
				// set up an empty attachment
				$attachments[$i] = array(
					'is_attachment' => FALSE,
					'filename'      => '',
					'name'          => '',
					'attachment'    => ''
				);

				// if this attachment has idfparameters, then proceed
				if ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->ifdparameters) {
					foreach ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->dparameters as $object) {
						// if this attachment is a file, mark the attachment and filename
						if (strtolower($object->attribute) == 'filename') {
							$attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = TRUE;
							$attachments[$i]['filename']      = $object->value;
						}
					}
				}

				// if this attachment has ifparameters, then proceed as above
				if ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->ifparameters) {
					foreach ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->parameters as $object) {
						if (strtolower($object->attribute) == 'name') {
							$attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = TRUE;
							$attachments[$i]['name']          = $object->value;
						}
					}
				}

				// if we found a valid attachment for this 'part' of the email, process the attachment
				if ($attachments[$i]['is_attachment']) {
					// get the content of the attachment
					$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = imap_fetchbody($this->conn, $email['index'], $i+1);

					// check if this is base64 encoding
					if ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->encoding == 3) { // 3 = BASE64
						$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = base64_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
					}
					// otherwise, check if this is "quoted-printable" format
					elseif ($email['structure']->parts[$i]->encoding == 4) { // 4 = QUOTED-PRINTABLE
						$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = quoted_printable_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
					}
				}
				
				if( empty( implode( '', $attachments[$i] ) ) ){
					unset( $attachments[$i] );
				}
			}
		}
		
		if( !empty( $attachments ) ){
			return $attachments;
		}
		
		return false;
	}
}

testRead.php

<?php
	ini_set( 'display_errors', true );
	error_reporting( -1 );

	include 'email.reader.class.php';
	
	$reader = new Email_reader( 'automail@domain.co.il', 'PA$$' );
	imap_errors();
	imap_alerts();
	
	foreach( $reader->inbox as $email ){
		
		$attachments = $reader -> get_attachments( $email );
		
		foreach( $attachments as $attachment ){
			
			$filename = $attachment['filename'];
			if( strpos( $filename, 'UTF-8' ) !== false ){
				$filename = explode( '?', $attachment['filename'] );
				$filename = base64_decode( $filename[3] );
			}
			
			header( 'Content-type: application/octet-stream' );
			header( 'Expires: 0' );
			header( 'cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate' );
			header( "Pragma: no-cache" );
			header( 'content-disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );
			header( 'content-type: application/octet-stream' );
			header( 'content-length: ' . strlen( $attachment['attachment'] ) );

			echo $attachment['attachment'];
		}
		
		
	}
	
?>