Question

I am using this cakephp email plugin to pull the emails from the account. Here are my parameters

'datasource' => 'Emails.Imap',
'server' => 'mail.example.com',
'connect' => 'imap/novalidate-cert',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'port' => '143',
'ssl' => false,
'encoding' => 'UTF-8',
'error_handler' => 'php',

and I make a query as it is indicated in documentation

$ticketEmails = $this->TicketEmail->find('first', array('recursive' => -1));

but when I debug the result, the following fields show data like this

Array
(
    [TicketEmail] => Array
        (


. . . other fields

            [body] => CjxIVE1MPjxCT0RZPnNvbWUgbWVzc2FnZTxicj48L0JPRFk+PC9IVE1MPgo=

            [plainmsg] => IHNvbWUgbWVzc2FnZQo=

 . . . other fields
        )

)

I can not understand why it shows these strings, e.g. in email account’s message’s body is just this text some message.

My cake version is 1.3

Thanks !

Answer 1

That’s Base64 encoding, looks like the plugin doesn’t handle that, it only checks for the quoted-printable format.

You could decode the data in your model, for example in the Model::afterFind() callback or in a custom method, or you could try modifying the plugin so that it returns the decoded data (untested):

protected function _fetchPart ($Part) {
    $data = imap_fetchbody($this->Stream, $Part->uid, $Part->path, FT_UID | FT_PEEK);
    if ($data) {
        // remove the attachment check to decode them too
        if ($Part->format === 'base64' && $Part->is_attachment === false) {
            return base64_decode($data);
        }
        if ($Part->format === 'quoted-printable') {
            return quoted_printable_decode($data);
        }
    }
    return $data;
}