From: Matt Rose <mattrose@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T08:05:51+09:00
Subject: Re: wrong content-type when trying to parse emails with Net::IMAP

On 29-Sep-06, at 4:45 PM, Paul Lutus wrote:

>
> Sure. In e-mails everything is plain text -- it has to be, in order  
> to be
> acceptable to the protocol. Therefore the content encoding is set  
> up to
> consist entirely of ASCII characters. It is up to the receiving  
> software to
> convert this plain-text form into graphics or whatever the content  
> actually
> represents.
>

What paul means is that the Net::IMAP just returns the text, and  
you'll have to parse the MIME attachments from the text that is in  
the body

Just out of curiosity, is there a lib in ruby to do this?

> -- 
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com

Matt