Module: RMail::Mailbox

Defined in:
lib/rmail/mailbox.rb,
lib/rmail/mailbox/mboxreader.rb

Overview

The RMail::Mailbox module contains a few methods that are useful for working with mailboxes.

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: MBoxReader

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.parse_mbox(input, line_separator = $/) ⇒ Object

Parse a Unix mbox style mailbox. These mailboxes searate individual messages with a line beginning with the string “From ”.

If a block is given, yields to the block with the raw message (a string), otherwise an array of raw message strings is returned.



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# File 'lib/rmail/mailbox.rb', line 45

def parse_mbox(input, line_separator = $/)
  require 'rmail/mailbox/mboxreader'
  retval = []
  RMail::Mailbox::MBoxReader.new(input, line_separator).each_message {
    |reader|
    raw_message = reader.read(nil)
    if block_given?
      yield raw_message
    else
      retval << raw_message
    end
  }
  return block_given? ? nil : retval
end