Re: Luasocket parse-email

[Jose <jmalv04@...>]

Thanks.

I really think this should be part of Luasocket as any email client
will need to write the same functionality.

Is luasocket still being developed/mantained ? It seems the last
release was over a year ago

regards,
jose


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Petite Abeille
<petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Jose wrote:
>
>> I am new to lua and am looking for the basic function to parse a raw
>> email message and decode the email content depending on the different
>> headers.
>
> Ah, yes... a fully compliant MIME parser in pure Lua would be nice... :)
>
> In the meantime, here is a mostly non-compliant one:
>
> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/MIME.lua
>
> Usage example:
>
> local MIME = require( 'MIME' )
>
> local aMIME = MIME( io.open( '3_12_2007.eml', 'rb' ):read( '*all' ) )
>
> print( aMIME.type )
>
> for anIndex, aValue in ipairs( aMIME.content ) do
>    print( aValue.type )
> end
>
>> multipart/alternative
>> text/plain
>> text/html
>
> The MIME table has 3 attributes of interest: header, type and content.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> http://alt.textdrive.com/nanoki/
> PA.
>