I'm at the "receiving end" of the mail wire: i receice mails in my (MS Windows Exchange) inbox encoded in standard mail/MIME format.

I'm interested in the text part of the body of these mails, that is: "what follows the mail header" (ie. the From:, Sent: To: Issue: stuff). The body contains haiku entries, that i parse and reshuffle into a voting list, and subsequently rank according to received votes, -- but the app as such is not that interesting in this context.
An example of the text part of a mail message is:

[author]   xxx yyy

[1]  
clouds . . .
the distance blossoming
between two crows

[2]
a morning
without incident
dead fly

[3]
sunrise ceremony
the holy man's third eye
bloodshot

[4]
morning dew
bell bottoms darkened
by mayflies

[download]

This is what i'm interested in parsing out, and this is the text part of the message, that is displayed in the mail client (in casu: MS Outlook).

The problem is, that the above text is not what i get from the mail body handed over by the the mentioned MIME modules. Instead i get the full mail body segment, including binary MIME encodings and HTML tagging.

So i have to do some filtering to get at the text "payload", that i need for the app. Now i was wondering, if anybody had already wrapped this functionality into a function, possibly in a MIME module. That was my question

I haven't worked with email before, so maybe i'm simply overlooking som basic assumptions about the MIME format & parsing...
-- allan

In reply to Re^2: Extracting TEXT from email by ady
in thread Extracting TEXT from email by ady

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