CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 427

getting junk characters in IMAP

I am getting junk characters when using php IMAP like

<b>Text in bold</b> getting converted to *Text in bold* 
 words like shouldn't are getting converted to shouldn=92t

the code I am using is 

$inbox = imap_open('host', 'un', 'pw') or die('Cannot connect to Mail box: ' . print_r(imap_errors()));
$mails = imap_search($inbox,'UNSEEN');
if($mails) {
    foreach($mails as $mail) {
        echo $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox, $mail, 1);
        echo "<br><br>";
    }
}
imap_close($inbox);

can some one help me to find whats the issue is?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (1)

a4c8b
a4c8b

Reputation: 925

You run into two different problems:

The text in bold is simply because the html in the mail is interpreted by the browser. To avoid this, you can escape the content with htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars()

"shouldn=92t" is a quoted-printable encoded string. This has to be decoded to be readable - can be done with quoted_printable_decode() or imap_qprint()

Upvotes: 2

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