class EmailReplyParser
EmailReplyParser is a small library to parse plain text email content. The goal is to identify which fragments are quoted, part of a signature, or original body content. We want to support both top and bottom posters, so no simple “REPLY ABOVE HERE” content is used.
Beyond RFC 5322 (which is handled by the [Ruby mail gem]), there aren't any real standards for how emails are created. This attempts to parse out common conventions for things like replies:
this is some text On <date>, <author> wrote: > blah blah > blah blah
… and signatures:
this is some text -- Bob http://homepage.com/~bob
Each of these are parsed into Fragment objects.
EmailReplyParser also attempts to figure out which of these blocks should be hidden from users.
[mail]: github.com/mikel/mail
Constants
- VERSION
Public Class Methods
Public: Get the text of the visible portions of the given email body.
text - A String email body.
Returns a String.
# File lib/email_reply_parser.rb, line 49 def self.parse_reply(text) self.read(text).visible_text end
Public: Splits an email body into a list of Fragments.
text - A String email body.
Returns an Email instance.
# File lib/email_reply_parser.rb, line 40 def self.read(text) Email.new.read(text) end