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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:18:06 +1200 Shane wrote: > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 11/08/2005 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
