PHP Mail Header decode =?iso-8859-2?B?QmFs4XpzIEJvZPM=?=

vargadanis · 03-24-2007, 04:45 PM

Hi!

I am trying to create a simple webmail for my cellphone in WML with PHP backend. The thing is that it doesn't go well because there are some mails that is just impossible to deal with. Or at least for me. It looks like:

Quote:

=?iso-8859-2?B?QmFs4XpzIEJvZPM=?=

This is the output of the following:

Code:

$header = imap_headerinfo($conn, $msg_num);				
$name = $header->from[0]->personal;	
print $name;

Not nice, ehh? It is a 7BIT message. I found the imap_8bit that could solve my problem easily but this is a 7bit message. And it seems that there is not much of connection between the encoding of the mail and the headers. What is the logic behind that thing? How can I decode that header?

Thx...

jlliagre · 03-24-2007, 05:12 PM

"QmFs4XpzIEJvZPM=" is the base64 encoding of "Balázs Bodó"

vargadanis · 03-24-2007, 05:33 PM

Now, tell me pls... how did you know that?

jlliagre · 03-25-2007, 03:08 AM

That's defined in this MIME RFC:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

vargadanis · 03-25-2007, 09:23 AM

God, I hate RFC! Because I have to read them! But anyways... imap_mime_headerdecode function does it for me automatically. Or at least something similar. So you know all the RFCs?

jlliagre · 03-25-2007, 11:11 AM

Of course not.

Actually, I was just strongly suspecting the string to be base-64, as it is the common way to encode localized strings with mails (that's the thing I know). I checked it was true by decoding it and found later which RFC was specifying it.