Battleangel

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to set up a gateway script to access my POP3 inbox remotely. Having done very little searching on the subject, my first script of choice became TrueMail. Later I also installed W-Mail Lite. The latter being a bit crippled of course.

Easy to use and requires no pointless database setup. Just log in … and read, write and delete messages at will. Not that I would consider writing anything on a cell phone pad. Just storing WAP bookmarks is enough of a hassle if you ask me. Never got used to typing with multitap, T9 or whatever. And I slept through the SMS hysteria obviously.

Anyway, the point is that it can be very useful to check your email messages via WAP. Especially when everything is on the same server. No 3rd party services that complicate things.

I’m working on properly converting some characters to appear and will return to this subject shortly …

Here is what I ended up doing. As suggested by someone in the Php Manual for imap_utf8 I added the following code to format the fetched fields:

$var = imap_utf8($var);
$var = utf8_decode($var);

This seems to be the only way to turn incomprehensible code like “=?ISO-8859-1?Q? .. =F6 … whatever” to human readable format. It’s sheer bliss watching the function do its job. Still having some trouble parsing the actual body (and getting rid of =F6 type code) though. Even though it begins using ISO-8859-1 as a template it seems to get lost later on. Strange.