Ask YC: Favorite email parsing library?

18 pointsby cduan17 yıl önce5 comments

Any recommendations on a good library for parsing emails in mbox format? I'm pretty agnostic as to language (I don't know Python, but if the library is that good, I will learn it). I mostly care that it takes care of all the language encoding business for me. I've been using the Perl Mail::Box suite, and language encodings with that is just a mess.

Thanks everyone!

6 comments

skwaddor17 yıl önce

leave the parsing to someone else and use plan9's upas mail file system

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/upas_mail_system/

http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/nupas.pdf

now available for plan9port on Unix

we don't need no stinking APIs and Libs, give us grep awk sed and cat

zeantsoi17 yıl önce

Best parser I've found for PHP is the Pear mimeDecode library. Takes a bit of time to figure out the header parsing but it's pretty decent at handling the UW torture test.

grandalf17 yıl önce

rmail for ruby totally rocks for parsing emails. I haven't used it for the mbox format but I think it can handle it.

diN0bot17 yıl önce

hmm, i've parsed email before. is there something specific to email encoding than general files? such as parsing the "encoding" header thingy? anything else?

robomail17 yıl önce

uriel17 yıl önce

upasfs(4) http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/upasfs

Edit: Damn, skwiddor beat me to it :)