From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T01:23:18+09:00
Subject: Re: recommended mailbox parsing library

On 1/9/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Martin DeMello wrote:
>
> > Are any of the ruby email parsing libraries currently maintained? I looked
> > at rubymail and tmail, but neither seem to have been updated recently - is
> > anyone currently using either of them (or some other ruby lib) to read and
> > process a mailbox (in mbox format)?
>
> i use tmail extensively to manage data streams via remote and local mailboxes.
> i think it's more the case that it's 'mature' than the case that it's not
> being maintained.  the library is really quite complete to the extent that one
> sometimes has to rtfm for a while before being able to do a particular task -
> there's just a lot there.

The following simple count-messages test returned the correct count,
but replaced my mailbox with a zero-byte file - any idea what I'm
doing wrong? This is with tmail 0.10.8

require 'tmail'

i = 0

loader = TMail::UNIXMbox.new( 'mailbox' )
loader.each_port do |port|
  mail = TMail::Mail.new(port)
  i += 1
  puts i
end

puts i

martin