From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-21T06:54:34+09:00
Subject: Re: IMAP stuff (or POP)

On Jan 19, 2007, at 04:01, Martin Boese wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:52, Phil Cooperking wrote:
>> I've been trying to find a good source of imap or pop information  
>> with
>> ruby and cant. maybe I'm missing somthing.
>>
>> as I understand with imap you can select parts of the BODY like  
>> [TEXT]
>> [1]. I understand what text does but I was underthe impression  
>> that [1]
>> would select just the plain text. with that does'nt always seem to be
>> the case with my test program. most of the results will come in plain
>> text then some will contain a both multiparts. So does [1] actually
>> do(mean).
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is strip everything from the mail apart from  
>> the
>> Enevelope and the plain text. can somebody point me in the right
>> direction? this is the line of code that I've been using to pull the
>> email with
>>
>> mail.message = imap.fetch(message_id, 'BODY[1]')[0].attr['BODY[1]']
>
> If it is an option for you, try downloading the entire mail and use  
> tmail or
> rubymail to parse/split it. Maybe the problem is with your imap  
> server.
>
> http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/
> http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/tmail/

No need.  The IMAP RFC, like most RFCs, takes a little practice to  
read.  Plus you save bandwidth and processing time by only  
downloading the chunks of the message you need.

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