Extracting text from emails

[spinalwiz]

I'm trying to extract text from a multipart MIME message. The message contains text/plain and text/html parts. Ideally I would like to remove the MIME information and the html tags, leaving just the text. But extracting just the text/plain parts would be ok. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks

 

[fishiface]

[tt]MIME:arser[/tt] does the first part of what you want:

[tt]use MIME:arser;
my $parser = new MIME:arser;
my $entity = $parser->parse( \*STDIN );
# loop through the attachments.
if ($entity->is_multipart()) {
foreach my $part ( $entity->parts() ) {
my $path = $part->bodyhandle->path();
process_bit( $path );
}
} else {
.....
[/tt]

This is just a flavour of what the beast can do!

The html2text utility is the easiest way to strip HTML tags - non-trivial at the best of times.

Good Luck ;-)