Re: HTML email results in "??????????" when captured
Re: HTML email results in "??????????" when captured
- Subject: Re: HTML email results in "??????????" when captured
- From: John M <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:25:28 +0100
Hi Patrick,
If in the raw source has a "text/plain;" alternative, adding the
"multipart/mixed" type to the "if myContentType begins with..." line
should work.
John M
On 3 Jul 2005, at 22:14, Patrick Collins wrote:
Thanks John... This isn't working though because if I look at the raw
source, it says:
Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=12306-846930886-1119712742-553
should I just add a "or myContentType begins with "multipart/mixed" ?
-patrick
John M wrote on 7/3/05, 1:45 PM:
Hi Patrick,
If the email has a "text/plain;" alternative you should be able to
parse it.
This works for the (few) paypal emails I have received.
--
tell application "Mail"
set theseMessages to selection
set thisMessage to item 1 of theseMessages
set myContentType to content of header "content-type" of
thisMessage
set mySource to source of thisMessage
end tell
if myContentType begins with "multipart/alternative" or myContentType
begins with "multipart/related" then
-- problems with nested multipart types
set {myTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to
{AppleScript's text item delimiters, {"boundary="}}
set myBoundry to (text item 2 of myContentType) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"\""}
set myBoundry to (text items of myBoundry) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"text/plain;"}
set myText to text item 2 of mySource
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {myBoundry}
set myText to text item 1 of myText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to myTID
end if
myText
--
Best wishes
John M
On 3 Jul 2005, at 20:01, Patrick Collins wrote:
Hi, I am trying to capture the text of a paypal email within
mail.app
using:
tell application "Mail"
set theseMessages to selection
set thisMessage to item 1 of theseMessages
set myText to (content of thisMessage) as text
end tell
however, the result since the paypal email is HTML mail, myText
becomes
"??????????????????????????????????"
and that's it..
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can convert HTML email to
standard text for the purposes of this capture?
-patrick
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