Any way to remove all quoted mails (previous mails from a thread)? about php-imap

[christatedavies]

I have written an email importer that strips out old email parts but I have to admit it was a terrifically tedious task. I'm still not finished but it basically involves a bunch of string stripping functions. Some use regex to find strings like "on {date} a person wrote" and out of office ness and some just use stripos()

I don't think you'll ever be 100% perfect so my big piece of advice (if importing emails into a database) is to keep a copy of the entire original email.

Saying all that though, this class made it a lot easier as I didn't have to deal with the email parts, like I did previously.

I'll dig out some of the code for you when I get into the office.

Chris

On 1 May 2014, at 02:00, dejan7 [email protected] wrote:

Consider this scenario:
A) I send email to [email protected]
B) He replies to my mail

Now in that email that i received using your class i have in $email->textPlain:

Hello this is a reply from [email protected]
Lorem ipsum.

On 2015/0723/ dejan7 said:

this is the first email
i sent to [email protected]
Is there any way to get only contents of the message i.e.:

Hello this is a reply from [email protected]
Lorem ipsum.
?

Is it somehow stored in email parts? The problems is that different clients mark the old emails differently. Some use > and some use } etc. etc. Also some include the line "On 2015/0723/ dejan7 said:" in various formats or don't include it at all!

Great class BTW, it works great, i'm just wondering if this is somehow possible. Thanks!

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[christatedavies]

So, this is the main function I use: http://pastebin.com/J0R5aCR1

I basically get the body from the imap object and then use that function to return a string. Its not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but its a continuous piece of work. There are also a couple of extra functions at the bottom that you can comment out.

[dejan7]

Wow thanks a lot man, you are awesome! You made my day! :) I'll check it
out later, when i get back home!
01.05.2014. 07.41, "christatedavies" [email protected] је
написао/ла:

I have written an email importer that strips out old email parts but I
have to admit it was a terrifically tedious task. I'm still not finished
but it basically involves a bunch of string stripping functions. Some use
regex to find strings like "on {date} a person wrote" and out of office
ness and some just use stripos()

I don't think you'll ever be 100% perfect so my big piece of advice (if
importing emails into a database) is to keep a copy of the entire original
email.

Saying all that though, this class made it a lot easier as I didn't have
to deal with the email parts, like I did previously.

I'll dig out some of the code for you when I get into the office.

Chris

On 1 May 2014, at 02:00, dejan7 [email protected] wrote:

Consider this scenario:
A) I send email to [email protected]
B) He replies to my mail

Now in that email that i received using your class i have in
$email->textPlain:

Hello this is a reply from [email protected]
Lorem ipsum.

On 2015/0723/ dejan7 said:

this is the first email
i sent to [email protected]
Is there any way to get only contents of the message i.e.:

Hello this is a reply from [email protected]
Lorem ipsum.
?

Is it somehow stored in email parts? The problems is that different
clients mark the old emails differently. Some use > and some use } etc.
etc. Also some include the line "On 2015/0723/ dejan7 said:" in various
formats or don't include it at all!

Great class BTW, it works great, i'm just wondering if this is somehow
possible. Thanks!

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[barbushin]

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[surgiie]

@christatedavies curious to see if you have expanded on this function?