Hi all,
Have been a wee bit quiet recently as my new contract fires me all over
the country most weeks. However I have a linux question.
If given a text file which is a forward of an email, headers and all, is
there a program which will parse it and successfully extract the
senders, reply to, from, subject ... in the same manner that the mail
programmes must parse the received packets to find the data required in
the headers for them to make sense of the email and route it?
The problem I am facing is that looking at forwarded emails I need to
parse the forwarded text headers and find who it was from and also if
their reply to is different to the sent from. There are a number of
conventions for how reply to, sendto, from tags are displayed and
formatted. I could write my own parser but if the code which does it
for mail programmes or another programme already does it why rebuild the
wheel.
I already have a parser written which takes text files and turns them
into nodes much the same way an XML validator steps through nodes but it
is the recognition of the headers I don't want to have to re-write.
Failing that do you now where the definitive list of valid header
formats resides?
Any thoughts?
TIA
Shane
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