imap_append

Hi,As we have been struggling with this for some time I wanted to share how we got imap_append working properly with all MIME parts including attachments.  If you are sending email and also wish to append the sent message to the Sent Items folder, I cannot think of an easier way to do this, as follows:1) Use SwiftMailer to send the message via PHP.$message = Swift_Message::newInstance("Subject goes here");(then add from, to, body, attachments etc)$result = $mailer->send($message);2) When you construct the message in step 1) above save it to a variable as follows:$msg = $message->toString(); (this creates the full MIME message required for imap_append()!!  After this you can call imap_append like this:imap_append($imap_conn,$mail_box,$msg."\r\n","\\Seen");I hope this helps the readers, and prevents saves people from doing what we started doing - hand crafting the MIME messages :-0

You can use PHPMailer ( https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/ ) with imap.<?php// after creating content of mail you have to run preSend() - part of send() method$mail->send();// and you can get whole raw message with getSentMIMEMessage() methodimap_append($imap, $mailserver.'INBOX.Sent',$mail->getSentMIMEMessage(), "\\Seen");

The date format string to use when creating $internal_date is 'd-M-Y H:i:s O'.

This function is how you take a sent message in your mail shell and place a copy of it in the remote mail server's sent folder.It is however not intuitive and I struggled for a couple hours so I'm placing these notes here to spare others the aggravation. Some of the errors I encountered: - Can't append to mailbox with such a name - Internal date not correctly formattedThe second/folder parameter is not the string you might think it is (e.g. "Sent", "Inbox.Sent", etc). It is the connection information used by imap_open() which doesn't make sense as the connection is already open! Whatever, here is a basic example addressing those three errors:<?php$server = '{mail.example.com:993/ssl/imap}INBOX.Sent';$mail_connection_folder = imap_open($server, $user, $pass);if ($mail_connection){ $result = imap_append($mail_connection, $server, $message_string_raw, '\\Seen', date('d-M-Y H:i:s O'));}?>I had been using the PHP Pear Mail extension which did a fantastic job with DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc. However it's not well maintained and I couldn't figure out if it returns the email message string. The PHPMailer library (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) does return the message string:<?php//Skip to key parts:$result = $mail->send();if ($result){ $message_string_raw = $mail->getSentMIMEMessage();}else {/*error handling*/}?>Hopefully this will spare some folks a lot of aggravation.