email_reply_parser's Introduction

Email Reply Parser

EmailReplyParser is a small library to parse plain text email content.

This is what GitHub uses to display comments that were created from email replies. This code is being open sourced in an effort to crowdsource the quality of our email representation.

See the Ruby docs for more information.

Installation

$ gem install email_reply_parser

Usage

To parse reply body:

parsed_body = EmailReplyParser.parse_reply(email_body)

Known Issues

Quoted Headers

Quoted headers aren't picked up if the email client breaks it up into multiple lines. GMail breaks up any lines over 80 characters for you.

On <date>, <author>
wrote:
> blah

Not to mention that we're searching for "on" and "wrote". It won't work with other languages.

Possible solution: Remove "[email protected]" lines...

Weird Signatures

Lines starting with - or _ sometimes mark the beginning of signatures:

Hello

--
Rick

Not everyone follows this convention:

Hello

Mr Rick Olson
Galactic President Superstar Mc Awesomeville
GitHub

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