Ask HN: In what interesting ways do you parse emails for your web app?
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you might want to give developers the ability to supply you with regex expressions perhaps and then do something like vary the post url/data based on any matches -- would enable matching of tech support ids or order ids, etc. but then again, developers can do the same thing in their code i guess, so you'd need a compelling reason as to why it should be done within your service.
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Now I am working on a hosted email parsing service and I want to present data in a more useful format to web app developers. I started simple, extracting URLs and phone numbers from the email.
So I want to ask you, in what interesting ways do you parse emails for your web app? Or do you have any novel ideas?
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