From: Charles Gray <smgspices@...>
Date: 2008-09-04T20:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: IMAP, Gmail & reading the body of the message

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:07 +0900, Luis Parravicini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Azalar --- <pteale@gmail.com> wrote:
> > All of the examples I have seen while Googling for this show you how to
> > get headers but none of the sites showed how to read the body of the
> > message.
> > All the messages
> > Could someone explain how I can read my GMail messages via Ruby and IMAP
> > please?
> 
> Hi
> 
> Use Net::IMAP.fetch (
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/imap/rdoc/classes/Net/IMAP.html#M001284
> ) and using something like 'BODY[TEXT]' as the attributes argument to
> fetch.
> For example:
> 
> body = imap.fetch(msg.seqno, 'BODY[TEXT]')
> 
> Sometimes I use TMail ( http://tmail.rubyforge.org/ ) to parse the
> mail after getting it.
> 
> 
gmail is pop3 with ssl encoding.