cakephp email plugin to pull email by imap - email

Question

I am using this cakephp email plugin to pull the emails from the account. Here are my parameters
'datasource' => 'Emails.Imap',
'server' => 'mail.example.com',
'connect' => 'imap/novalidate-cert',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'port' => '143',
'ssl' => false,
'encoding' => 'UTF-8',
'error_handler' => 'php',
and I make a query as it is indicated in documentation
$ticketEmails = $this->TicketEmail->find('first', array('recursive' => -1));
but when I debug the result, the following fields show data like this
Array
(
[TicketEmail] => Array
(
. . . other fields
[body] => CjxIVE1MPjxCT0RZPnNvbWUgbWVzc2FnZTxicj48L0JPRFk+PC9IVE1MPgo=
[plainmsg] => IHNvbWUgbWVzc2FnZQo=
. . . other fields
)
)
I can not understand why it shows these strings, e.g. in email account's message's body is just this text some message.
My cake version is 1.3
Thanks !

Answer 1

That's Base64 encoding, looks like the plugin doesn't handle that, it only checks for the quoted-printable format.
You could decode the data in your model, for example in the Model::afterFind() callback or in a custom method, or you could try modifying the plugin so that it returns the decoded data (untested):
protected function _fetchPart ($Part) {
$data = imap_fetchbody($this->Stream, $Part->uid, $Part->path, FT_UID | FT_PEEK);
if ($data) {
// remove the attachment check to decode them too
if ($Part->format === 'base64' && $Part->is_attachment === false) {
return base64_decode($data);
}
if ($Part->format === 'quoted-printable') {
return quoted_printable_decode($data);
}
}
return $data;
}