Question

I’m using the Zend_Mail_Message class to display emails inside of my PHP app, and am able to output the subject, content, date and even the NAME of the sender (using $message->from) but I can’t figure out how to get the email address of the person who sent the message. The documentation is no help and googling finds a million results for how to send messages with Zend, but nothing about getting the address that sent the message.

Answer 1

EDIT:

This is how I ended up doing it. After some more digging, I found the sender’s email in a field called ‘return-path’. Unfortunately, this field has a dash in the name (WTF??) so to access it, I had to do this:

$return_path = ‘return-path’;
$message->reply_to = $zendMessage->$return_path;

Using the return-path caused some problems with some emails, specifically messages from no-reply accounts ([e-mail], [e-mail] etc). These addresses would end up looking something like this:

[e-mail]

…which obviously doesn’t work for display in a ‘from’ field on the front-end. Email clients like Apple Mail and Gmail show [e-mail] or [e-mail], so that’s what I was going for too.

Anyways, after some more research, I discovered that the ‘from’ field in a Zend Mail Message object always looks something like this:

"user account name" <[e-mail]>

The part in < > is what I was after, but simply doing $from = $zend_message->from only gave me the user’s account name (hence my original question). After some more playing around, this is how I finally got it working:

  $from   = $zendMessage->from;
  $start  = strpos($from, '<');
  $email  = substr($from, $start, -1);
  $result = str_replace('<', '', $email);

Hopefully this will save someone some frustration. If anyone knows of a simpler way of doing this, please let me know.