Reading email using ruby-mail is not returning the mail body in text format

Question

Im using ruby-mail to read a email.

Everything im getting in proper readable format, except mail body.

Mail body appears as some other encoding format.

My code is :

Mail.defaults do
  retriever_method :pop3, :address    => "some.email.com",
              :port       => 995,
              :user_name  => 'domain/username',
              :password   => 'pwd',
              :enable_ssl => true
end


puts "From"
puts mail.from
puts "Sender:"
puts mail.sender
puts "To:"
puts mail.to              
puts "CC:"
puts mail.cc              
puts "Subject:"
puts mail.subject         
puts "Date:"
puts mail.date.to_s       
puts "MessageID:"
puts mail.message_id      
puts "Body:"
#puts mail.body

Output is :

From [email protected]

Sender:

To: [email protected]

CC:

Subject: case4: Legal Hold Notification

Date: 2012-04-24T14:46:25-04:00

MessageID: 3298720.1335293185423.JavaMail.root@vm-bhaveshok7

Body:

Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 09:45:08 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <[email protected]>

SGVsbG8gU2lyL01hZGFtLA0KDQpCcmllZiBpbnRyb2R1Y3Rpb24gdG8gdGhl IGNhc2UgY2FzZTQNCg0KV2UgaGF2ZSBpZGVudGlmaWVkIHlvdSBhcyBhIHBl cnNvbiB3aG8gbWF5IGhhdmUgImRvY3VtZW50cyIgLS0gd2hpY2ggaW5jbHVk ZXMgYm90aCBwaHlzaWNhbCBhbmQgZWxlY3Ryb25pYyBkb2N1bWVudHMgLS0g dGhhdCBhcmUgcmVsYXRlZCB0byB0aGlzIG1hdHRlci4gV2UgYXJlIGltcGxl bWVudGluZyBhIG1hbmRhdG9yeSBkb2N1bWVudCByZXRlbnRpb24gcG9saWN5 IHRvIHByZXNlcnZlIHRoZXNlIGRvY3VtZW50cy4gUGxlYXNlIGNhcmVmdWxs eSByZXZpZXcgdGhpcyBtZW1vcmFuZHVtIGFuZCBzdHJpY3RseSBhZGhlcmUg dG8gdGhlIG1hbmRhdG9yeSBkb2N1bWVudCByZXRlbnRpb24gcG9saWN5IG91 dGxpbmVkIGhlcmVpbi4gW0NvbXBhbnldIGNvdWxkIGJlIHN1YmplY3QgdG8g

SO i cannot read the mail body.

What needs to be done so that i can read the mail, i need to extract the text from the body and have to use the link that are present inside the mail body.

Bhavesh

Answer 1

Add the mail gem and just use email body format with mail.parts[1].body.decoded

Answer 2

The mail gem doesn't automatically decode the body. You can use:

mail.message.body.decoded

to get the decoded message body. In addition you might find that you want to access the plain of the HTML parts of a message. In order to do this you could use something like the following:

plain_part = message.text_part ? message.text_part.body.decoded : nil
html_part = message.html_part ? message.html_part.body.decoded : nil

You could then use the message.body.decoded as a fallback in case these parts don't exist.

Answer 3

I used:

[...]

ids = imap.search(['UNSEEN'])

ids.each do |msg_id|
  raw_msg = imap.fetch(msg_id,'RFC822').first.attr['RFC822']
  msg = Mail.read_from_string raw_msg
  msg_body_content = msg.multipart?? msg.text_part.body.decoded : message.html_part.body.decoded
end