From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-02-15T04:32:54+09:00
Subject: Re: help with IMAP documentation

On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:05, barjunk wrote:
> Being new to ruby, I'm having a little trouble getting my mind around
> the documentation for net/imap, located here:
>
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/imap/rdoc/index.html
>
> I understand that if I do:
>
> messagestruct = imap.uid_fetch(10,["BODYSTRUCTURE"])[0]
>
> I will get a FetchData object and further processing, like:
>
> message = messagestruct.attr["BODYSTRUCTURE"].parts[0].subtype
>
> would provide me the type of message (Plain, Html, etc) part 0 is.
>
> But I don't get what I'm 'doing'.  What words would describe the above
> commands?

You'll have to pass the message through a library like TMail to do  
further processing on the body.