From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T07:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract data from email - Tmail, Hpricot



On Sep 8, 11:31 am, Geo _C <geocoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Morin wrote:
> > George Cooper wrote:
> >> I have tried Tmail, but can't seem to extract just the body.  Then I
> >> tried Hpricot and wasn't sure what to use before the .inner_html. So
> >> basically I'm very lost on where to start.
>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
>
> >> Thanks!
>
> > It would help if you posted some code that didn't work, so people can
> > have a better idea of what you're trying to do.  Tmail should have been
> > able to parse that without problem, however, extracting the body is
> > easy.  The box follows the empty line.  You could use something like
> > split, but duping such huge strings could be slow.  When you read the
> > mail, try to read a line at a time until you get the empty line, then
> > read the rest into a buffer for hpricot.
>
> Below is the code I am using to try and get the body out of the html
> email (copy of emailhttp://pastie.org/265259) .
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'tmail'
>
> email = TMail::Mail.load( 'emailhtml.eml' )
>
> puts email['body'] # comes back nil

Don't see why it would be nil. I would contact Mikel.

  http://lindsaar.net/

> puts email['from']
> puts email['Delivered-To']
> puts email['to'] # comes back nil

I don't see a 'to' in the header, so is this a surprise?

> puts email['subject']
> puts email['date']
> puts email['X-Originalarrivaltime']
>
> results:
> nil
> us...@sender2.com
> geocoo...@gmail.com
> nil
> [Freddy] New Incidents captured on 2008-09-02
> Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:05:00 -0400
> 02 Sep 2008 23:10:35.0578 (UTC) FILETIME=[1B2659A0:01C90D51]

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