Read the message body

Description

string imap_body ( resource $imap_stream , int $msg_number [, int $options ] )

imap_body() returns the body of the message, numbered msg_number in the current mailbox.

imap_body() will only return a verbatim copy of the message body. To extract single parts of a multipart MIME-encoded message you have to use imap_fetchstructure() to analyze its structure and imap_fetchbody() to extract a copy of a single body component.

Parameters

imap_stream

An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

msg_number

The message number

options

The optional options are a bit mask with one or more of the following:

FT_UID - The msg_number is a UID
FT_PEEK - Do not set the \Seen flag if not already set
FT_INTERNAL - The return string is in internal format, will not canonicalize to CRLF.

Return Values

Returns the body of the specified message, as a string.