Standard module for parsing emails?
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Wed Jul 30 09:10:19 EDT 2008
Phillip B Oldham wrote:
> Is there a standard library for parsing emails that can cope with the
> different way email clients quote?
AFAIK not - as unfortunately that's something the user can configure, and
thus no atrocity is unimaginable. Hard to write a module for that...
All you can try is to apply a heuristic like "if there are lines all
starting with a certain prefix that contains non-alphanumeric characters".
But then if the user configures to quote using
XX
you're doomed...
Diez
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