Parse Mail Message Script

This script breaks a mail message into its component parts. It's is very useful when you want to do any work with a mail message and get all the non-interesting parts out of your way.

It takes standard-format text and creates a table in the object database.

Here's what a mail message looks like after its been parsed into a table:

Name Value Kind
date Thu, 09 Apr 1998 18:19:36 +0000 (GMT) string [37]
recipient dave@scripting.com string [18]
sender raster@execpc.com string [17]
subject Frontier and Perl string [17]
text Dave, here's where I am in the Frontier/Perl thing. Using the MacPerl suit... string [731]
x-mailer UserLand Frontier 5.0.1 (Macintosh OS) string [38]
x-sender raster@execpc.com (Unverified) string [30]

I think you can imagine what the original mail message looked like.

Thanks to Faris Abetam, abetam@online.com.my, for asking for this script.

I think a lot of people will find this useful.

Dave

PS: I use this script to manage the Mail website on scripting.com.

This is a fat web page containing workspace.parseMailMessage. More info on fat pages here.