From: Rove Monteux <rove.monteux@...>
Date: 2004-02-07T05:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Email parsing

Hi Sam !

Yes Im pretty puzzled now,

puts m.to_s

Outputs the whole of the message, including the two parts (normal body + attachment).

Now, p m.body and p part return nil. And I can clearly see that the email message is properly formed and has a body (+ attachment).

Gonna browse through the sources for rubymail and try to trace down whats happening, or where Im going wrong.

Anyway I agree with the 4 day schema (as long's still paid full time, of course) :)


Cheers and thanks again !


Rove Monteux



Sam Roberts wrote:

>Quoteing rove.monteux@fluid-rock.com, on Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:14:01AM +0900:
>  
>
>>Yes, I got till there using the net/pop alright, can retrieve headers 
>>(subject, from, to etc). Im a bit lost now, I request the message.body 
>>as it says on the docs, and it returns me nil, both on multipart or not 
>>messages.
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, your on your own now, luckily you have the source!
>
>  
>
>>Follows my snippet (message is the full message retrieved with m.pop),
>>
>># deals with the body
>>puts m.to_s
>>if m.multipart?()
>> m.each_part { |g|
>>   puts g.to_s }
>>    
>>
>
>I think this should be g.decode().
>
>  
>
>>else
>> puts m.decode().to_s
>>    
>>
>
>And this shouldn't have a .to_s.
>
>decode() is just a wrapper around a check that its not multi-part, then
>looks to see if it's qp or base64 encoded, and decodes if appropriate.
>
>No docs on what the parts are, but my bet is that they are a
>RMail:Message, because that's how MIME works: its recursive. Each of
>those parts could have parts, too.
>
>  
>
>>end
>>
>>end
>>    
>>
>
>First thing I'd do, though, is this:
>
>p m.body
>
>if m.body.is_a?(Array)
>  m.body.each do |part|
>    p part
>  end
>end
>
>Just to kinda check out what Message.@body is...
>
>The mail message you're looking at DOES have a body, doesn't it? :-)
>
>I wrote a library like this in C++, and it was fun, but got mostly
>abandoned. Lickey isn't really working on this now, he's got a life, it
>sounded like, last time I exchanged mail with him.
>
>I'd like to do some work on rubymail, I've some local changes I've made,
>and I'd like to add some net/(imap,pop) integration, stuff like that,
>but there are only so many hours in the day. Canada's pretty
>progressive, but we still haven't managed to legislate a 26 hour day (or
>even a 4-day workweek, sadly).
>
>Good luck,
>Sam
>
>
>
>
>  
>

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