From: bbense@... (Booker Bense)
Date: 2007-08-30T00:55:13+09:00
Subject: Ruby Library for dealing with mbox files

I'm working on rewriting my email filtering hacks and I need a
library that can parse unix mbox file format where the embedded
'\nFrom ' in a message are not quoted. (i.e. one that knows about the
Header Content-Length ). 

I've been using the rmail library in 

rubymail-0.17 

plus my own hack to parse the mbox file. ( rubymail's parser
crashes when give such a file. ) I think I have a fix for 
this, but I thought I would check if there are any more recent
projects that can do this. 

I poked around Rubyforge and found nothing useful. I am aware of
Tmail, but I'm not sure it solves this problem either. Basically,
I need a ruby version of formail.

If there is a "standard" email handling package, I'd take a look
and see about making it do what I want. At this point all the
email handling packages seem like abandonware... 

_ Booker C. Bense