Email Reply Parser

EmailReplyParser is a small library to parse plain text email content.

This is what GitHub uses to display comments that were created from email replies. This code is being open sourced in an effort to crowdsource the quality of our email representation.

Usage

To parse reply body:

parsed_body = EmailReplyParser.parse_reply(email_body, from_address)

Argument from_address is optional. If included it will attempt to parse out signatures based on the name in the from address (if signature doesn't have a standard deliminator.)

Installation

Get it from GitHub or gem install email_reply_parser. Run rake to run the tests.

Contribute

If you'd like to hack on EmailReplyParser, start by forking the repo on GitHub:

https://github.com/github/email_reply_parser

The best way to get your changes merged back into core is as follows:

• Clone down your fork
• Create a thoughtfully named topic branch to contain your change
• Hack away
• Add tests and make sure everything still passes by running rake
• If you are adding new functionality, document it in the README
• Do not change the version number, I will do that on my end
• If necessary, rebase your commits into logical chunks, without errors
• Push the branch up to GitHub
• Send a pull request to the github/email_reply_parser project.

Known Issues

Quoted Headers

Quoted headers like these currently don't work with other languages:

On <date>, <author> wrote:

> blah

Weird Signatures

Not everyone follows this convention:

Hello

Saludos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Galactic President Superstar Mc Awesomeville
GitHub

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