Parsing forwarded emails

Question

I\'m writing some code to parse forwarded emails. What I\'m not sure is if maybe there is some Python library, some RFC I could stick to or some other resou

Answer 1

Standard for a reply/forward is > prepending each line the number of times the mail is nested including who sent the initial e-mail is up to the client to sort out. So what you need to do in python is simply add > to the start of each line.

imap Test  Wrote:
>
>twice
>imap Test wrote:
>> nested
>>
>> imap@gazler.com wrote:
>>> test
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Message sent via AHEM.
>>>   
>>
>

Attachments just simply need to be attached to the message or as you put it 'go wild.'

I am not familiar with python, but believe the code would be:

string = string.replace("\n","\n>")