downloadMail - Email Match

4 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons
Last Post: November 15, 2016   (RSS)

By Perchpole - November 14, 2016

Hello, All -

This concerns a topic which has been archived:

https://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2230012#post2230012

I'm trying to find a way to match the sender's email address with those present in a list of users. Two methods are suggested in the thread:

if (!in_array($incoming_mail['from'], $allEmails) ( continue; } // skip if email doesn't match

$fromMatchesMember = mysql_count('accounts', array('email' => $incoming_mail['from']));

if ($fromMatchesMember) { etc... }

In practice however, neither seems to work. My guess is because the email in $incoming_mail['from'] contains more data than just the email address. The format looks like this:

Joe Bloggs <joe@bloggs.com>

Is this why the match is failing? If so can someone suggest a fix?

Thanks,

Perchpole

By gkornbluth - November 14, 2016

Hi Perch,

Have a look at this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33865113/extract-email-address-from-string-php
It might help...

Jerry Kornbluth

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By Perchpole - November 14, 2016

Jerry -

You beauty! You've cracked it! Here's what I sued:

$emailAddress = $message['from'];
preg_match_all("/[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i", $emailAddress, $matches);
$fromMatchesMember = mysql_count('accounts', array('email' => $matches[0]));

if ($fromMatchesMember) {
  do stuff...
}

Thanks again,

:0)

Perch