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Re: Getting content of an HTML message in Mail
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Re: Getting content of an HTML message in Mail


  • Subject: Re: Getting content of an HTML message in Mail
  • From: Andreas Amann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:41:18 -0800

I am trying to get the content of a selected message. The message is formatted with HTML.
[...]
I get the_subject just fine, but the_content shows "?" rather than the content of the message.
I am able to make this work (getting "source" rather than "content"):
[...]
but this gives me a lot of formatting to wade through (all I want is the information, not the formatting). Is there a way for me to get just the text, without the formatting, if the message is HTML?

Oh yes, the joys of AS implementation errors in Mail;-) This actually used to work as intended in 10.2 (you would get the content of the plain text alternative) but broke in 10.3.0 and has not been fixed - maybe even more people need to submit this bug to Apple to get it fixed...


The only way of dealing with this currently is indeed getting the message source and wading through it all the extract the information you want - Perl is your friend here!

I have written a parser for mail messages in Perl (using HTML::Parser and Mail::Tools from CPAN) which can be implemented in an AppleScript - I do this in the "Export Messages" script of "Mail Scripts". You might want to take a look at the source code which is available from my web page:

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/

Andreas Amann

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