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emailreplyparser
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Email Reply Parser
Node.js port of Github's EmailReplyParser, a small library to parse plain text email content.
Known Issues
(Taken from Github's version)
Quoted Headers
Quoted headers aren't picked up if there's an extra line break:
On <date>, <author> wrote:
> blah
Also, they're not 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 search for "on" and "wrote". It won't work with other languages.
Possible solution: Remove "reply@reply.github.com" 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
**********************DISCLAIMER***********************************
* Note: blah blah blah *
**********************DISCLAIMER***********************************
Strange Quoting
Apparently, prefixing lines with > isn't universal either:
Hello
--
Rick
________________________________________
From: Bob [reply@reply.github.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 6:16 PM
To: Rick
To run the tests
- Install nodeunit
npm install nodeunit - Run the tests:
nodeunit test/email_reply_parser_test.js
FAQs
Node.js Port of GitHub's email_reply_parser.rb
The npm package emailreplyparser receives a total of 7,371 weekly downloads. As such, emailreplyparser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that emailreplyparser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 30 Apr 2014
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