barbushin
How to avoid multiple/duplicate attachments dowload?
PHP IMAP version: 5.0.1 PHP Version: 8.1 Type of execution: CLI or Web Server
I want to dowload the attachments but not multiple times.
Current situation: The attachments file informations like filename, path, mime type, etc. is requestable with $mail->getAttachments() but -as I learned- only if $mailbox->ignoreAttachments() (or equivalent in the connection settings) is NOT set to false. The problem with this is, that if $mailbox->ignoreAttachments() is set to true all the attachment files are transferred from new at every single connection, even if I already stored them, which slows down performance. It looks like the ignoreAttachments option can not be used for the single emails whithin a request.
My questions: Is there a way to retrieve the attachment file information with $mail->getAttachments() BUT without the mandatory need to transfer the entire file? I know that I can use/not use fileToDisk() to control if the attachment gets saved on disk or not. But I would like to init the file-transfer between the Servers only, if the file is really needed for storage.
In short I would like to ...
- ... get E-Mail including detail-informations about exisiting attachments (no file transfer of attachments yet)
- ... only if detail-information leads to decision to dowload the attachments -> init file transfer and store the attachments
(edited since I could solve a part of my prior question already)
