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Re: HTML email results in "??????????" when captured
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  • Subject: Re: HTML email results in "??????????" when captured
  • From: "Patrick Collins" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
  • Organization: Collinator Studios

I tried doing that, and I got  "can't get item 2 of "x-apparently-to:<my
email>via <my ip>; sun 03 jul 2005.. etc etc etc.. basicallly the raw
source of the email all listed out".

I'm curious if doing this copy-paste in text-edit is a good idea or
not..  thoughts?

-patrick

John M wrote on 7/3/05, 2:25 PM:

 > 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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