Re: [Chicken-users] Parsing EMail

[Karsten Gebbert]

On 03/25/2013 11:55 AM, Andy Bennett wrote:
> Hi.
>
> > I'm relatively new to chicken and this list, so bear with me :)
> >
> > My aim is to parse EMails (for using with procmail, for instance) but
> > I'm a little stuck/confused by my options. I've been playing with
> > hato-mime.scm (hg cloned from google source project), and I also looked
> > at internet-message, but without trying to sound like I'm complaining,
> > the docs are somewhat meager for the beginner that I definitely am :)
> Hato is definitely the suite you want if you need to dip into the MIME
> sections, but the docs are somewhat sparse.

Cool, thanks, thats quite helpful!

> Which version did you clone?
>
> http://code.google.com/r/datenhobel-hato-egg-update/

that one :)

> ...has some updates which allow it to compile for later Chickens but not
> all the modules are included.

A few weeks back I got some help with getting this install by some 
friendly schemers on the IRC :)

> > So my question is: could somebody point me to some example code for
> > either one or the other library that can get me started? I basicall
> > would like to be able to parse message into they parts (different bodies
> > for content-types, attachments..) and play with them in chicken.
> I've not used Hato before but I've taken a quick look at
>
> http://code.google.com/r/datenhobel-hato-egg-update/source/browse/hato-mime.scm
>
> ...and it strikes me that calling (mime-message->sxml) and passing it a
> message on the current-input-port should get you a data structure that
> you can explore.

Ah I overlooked this, thank you. It seems It does indeed just do what I 
need :)

> Alternatively, there is this example in the source:
>
> http://code.google.com/r/datenhobel-hato-egg-update/source/browse/examples/user.filter

I don't understand though: is the parsing explicitly invoked, or are 
these rules matched against an already parsed message?


Thanks for your swift reply!

k

> Regards,
> @ndy