[dev] Reading messages with Horde_Mime_Part::parseMessage()

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Micheal,

when working on the final elements of the Kolab_Storage API this  
weekend I used Horde_Mime_Part::parseMessage() to read in complete  
messages from the IMAP backend. I replaced one part of these messages  
with alterPart() and tried writing the messages back via toString().  
The resulting message did however duplicate the message to some  
extend. When reading multi-part messages with parseMessage() the base  
part ($message->getPart('0')) contains the complete message text  
including all subparts. This leads to the duplication when using  
$message->toString() afterwards.

My expectation was that this would hold true:

  $message = Horde_Mime_Part::parseMessage($message_text);
  $message->toString() == $message_text;

Maybe not absolutely "==" but at least to large extends. So is my  
expectation incorrect and if so how should I use the library to  
manipulate existing messages?

Thanks!

Gunnar

-- 
Core Developer
The Horde Project

e: wrobel at horde.org
t: +49 700 6245 0000
w: http://www.horde.org

pgp: 9703 43BE
tweets: http://twitter.com/pardus_de
blog: http://log.pardus.de