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| From | Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php |
| Date | 2013-05-24 19:16 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <knos3s$3t0$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <knongf$e81$1@dont-email.me> |
On 5/24/2013 5:57 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>
> I have been slowly building a Php/MySQL based IMAP email client. The
> Php IMAP functions are well documented and easy to use. I store
> messages in a MySQL database (attachments in the file system) for ease
> of organization, maintenance, backup and searching. I like it enough
> that I want to add my existing archive of email in Thunderbird. To do
> so, I need to parse mbox files and extract message headers, parts, and
> attachments. Thankfully, the Php IMAP functions can be used to open and
> parse an mbox file (or even a single .eml file) as well as opening a
> stream to the server.
>
> Using this functionality I can write a script to run on my WAMP
> development machine that reads the Thunderbird folder structure, parses
> the mbox files and saves individual messages along with their
> folder/subfolder path in the Thunderbird folder hierarchy. It should be
> as easy as pointing it to the top of the folder structure and letting it
> do all the work from there.
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that the Windows Php binary is unable to
> connect to an mbox file, so to make my job easy, I would have to upload
> the entire folder structure (it is about 200MBs) to my shared host and
> process it there. I would much rather "toy around" with this process on
> my Windows development machine and not on the shared host.
>
> There is a Php bug filed for this, but it was determined that the
> "underlying c-client function is unable to open a file."
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39880 - closed as "not a bug."
>
> $mbox = imap_open('pathto/mboxfile', '', '') // works on *nix, but not
> on Windows.
> - Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream mboxfiles/Inbox ....
> - Notice: Unknown: Can't open mailbox mboxfiles/Inbox: no such mailbox
> (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0.
> (This second error is the one coming from the underlying c-client
> function.)
>
> I believe this is a dead end but want to check if anyone has happened to
> figure out a way to make this work in Windows - or if you know of a
> separate mbox file parser that would be fairly simple to integrate with
> my current Php IMAP based scripts - dependent on the output of
> imap_fetchstructure, imap_headerinfo, imap_fetchbody(parts).
>
> If not, I will probably build a form that lets me select individual
> (smaller) sections of the folder hierarchy to process individually
> (tedious and prone to error).
>
Are you sure Thunderbird's files are in imap format? I didn't think
they were - I thought they were in some Thunderbird-specific format.
But also, if you're opening 'pathto/mboxfile', why is it complaining
about 'mboxfiles...'?
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Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 15:57 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 00:40 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 21:17 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 09:30 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 16:19 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 17:19 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 17:48 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 20:09 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-24 19:16 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 17:40 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-25 10:50 -0500
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-05-25 18:08 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-25 11:14 -0500
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-25 16:39 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-26 23:11 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 14:13 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 08:49 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 15:25 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 10:01 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 18:08 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 19:05 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-28 01:42 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 19:50 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 00:17 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 17:51 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php (correction - ignore previous) Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 18:20 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-27 10:22 -0500
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 21:15 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-28 12:23 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 17:56 -0600
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-28 22:27 -0400
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 15:23 +0200
Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 00:08 +0200
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