On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:05:06AM +0900, furby wrote:
> I am rather new to Ruby and I want to write a program to play around
> with email. I can connect to my chosen pop3 server and iterate through
> the mail relatively easily. But my question is how to I parse out the
> mail? How do I access the From, Subject, and body? Are there any easy
> way's to do this in Ruby without adding lots of new programming
> libraries (I found a couple that would make this really easy, but I
> don't want to drain my bank account by spending money on them), but I
> can't figure out how to do this in straight Ruby...
> 
> Do I have to parse out the entire message, or are there easy commands
> in the normal net/pop3 library?

I don't quite see how you expect to have anything drain your back
account.   Have you seen the following?

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=mail

-- Thomas Adam

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