Rails - Sep 2006 - ActionMailer, TMail: any way to strip quoted reply in receive?

I''m handling incoming mails with ActionMailer::receive.  It''s
working
great, but I''d like to strip out the quoted reply from the email.  I
wrote some regexp thing to do it for the standard ascii mail where it
puts ''>'' in front of the quoted text, but people who use
html mail
seem to have a multitude of different ways of quoting the original
mail in their replies.

I can parse these out as I find new ones, but I was wondering if
something was already built into TMail or ActionMailer to do this.  I
looked through some of the TMail source and couldn''t find anything.

Thanks.

patrick

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On 5 Sep 2006, at 17:19, Patrick Crosby wrote:
>
> I''m handling incoming mails with ActionMailer::receive. 
It''s working
> great, but I''d like to strip out the quoted reply from the email. 
I
> wrote some regexp thing to do it for the standard ascii mail where it
> puts ''>'' in front of the quoted text, but people who
use html mail
> seem to have a multitude of different ways of quoting the original
> mail in their replies.
>
> I can parse these out as I find new ones, but I was wondering if
> something was already built into TMail or ActionMailer to do this.  I
> looked through some of the TMail source and couldn''t find
anything.
TMail is fairly dumb - it''s just intended to give you access to the  
various segments of the email, without trying to interpret them in  
any special way.  I''m not aware of any publicly available ruby stuff  
to do this for you.  You might start with rfc3676, which is the  
specification on how this is *supposed* to be done.  Whether mail  
clients correctly follow it or not is a different question...
http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3676