From: Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-29T10:58:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Mail mailread.rb

pedro mg <seti@tquadrado.com> wrote:
> on Ruby 1.8.7 mailread.rb was part of the Std-lib:
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/mailread/rdoc/Mail.html
> 
> On Ruby >= 1.9.x it is not.
> 
> Any hint on what can one use now to create a mail message from a
> (mbox) file, so that one can read the message text into the object and
> get the header, body etc ?
> 
> Giving a little update to this old gmail importer script:
> 
> https://github.com/pedromg/2gmail.rb/blob/master/2gmail.rb#L80

rubygem mail seems to be the one to use nowadays. I'm unclear if it
supports mbox format files, though.