Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php

From	"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php
Date	2013-05-25 11:14 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<slrnkq1orr.msg.hellsop@nibelheim.ninehells.com> (permalink)
References	<knongf$e81$1@dont-email.me>

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On Fri, 24 May 2013 15:57:14 -0600, 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.)

Okay, step one: quit munging stuff around and give us the EXACT code,
the EXACT contents of variables involved, and the EXACT error messages.
You're not revealing national secrets by posting paths to filenames, and
what the problem is may be in what you're changing to be more general.

> 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).

Of course, by the time you're done with that, the 200MB transfer would
have been LONG finished and you'd have your goal accomplished on the
hosted server.... (:

-- 
19. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was 
   evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray
   her own father.
        --Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord

Thread

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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