Mail Lib

An mail parsing lib.

Features

• clean API

Usage

Create new Mail

mail = Mail::Mail.new
mail.header.to = "test_to@test.de"
mail.header.from = "test_from@test.de"
mail.header.subject = "Test Mail"
mail.header.content_transfer_encoding = "quoted-printable"
mail.header.content_type.charset = "UTF-8"
mail.content = {:text_plain => "Hallo World !!!"}

Create new Mail with Text and HTML part

mail = Mail::Mail.new
mail.header.to = "test_to@test.de"
mail.header.from = "test_from@test.de"
mail.header.subject = "Test Mail"
mail.header.content_transfer_encoding = "quoted-printable"
mail.header.content_type.charset = "UTF-8"
mail.content = {
  :text_plain => "Hallo World !!!",
  :text_html => "<strong>Hallo World !!!</strong>"
}

Create new Mail Attachment

mail = Mail::Mail.new
mail.header.to = "test_to@test.de"
mail.header.from = "test_from@test.de"
mail.header.subject = "Test Mail"
mail.header.content_transfer_encoding = "quoted-printable"
mail.header.content_type.charset = "UTF-8"
mail.content = {
  :text_plain => "Hallo World !!!",
  :image_jpeg => File.read("path/to/image")
}

Load an existing Mail

mail = Mail::Mail.new(File.read("path/to/mail"))

puts mail.header.to  => ["test_to@test.de"]

Get attachments from a Mail

mail = Mail::Mail.new(File.read("path/to/mail"))

if mail.header.attachments?
    mail.attachments do |attachment|
        puts attachment.header.content_type.type   =>   "image/tiff"
        puts attachment.header.content_disposition.filename  =>  "fax.tif"
        puts attachment.size  =>  408850
    end
end