Mail gem - how to clean up the body string

Question

I\'m trying to read an email using ruby mail gem. But mail.body.decoded returns me not just the body message. How can I clean up this body message and remove unwan

Answer 1

If you have a properly formatted email, you can use Mail helper methods:

mail = Mail.new(email_string)
mail.text_part # finds the first text/plain part
mail.html_part # finds the first text/html part

This doesn't always work if you have e.g. single part messages (text only) or receive email from the internet at large since you can't rely on formatting from every client out there. Believe me, I've learned the hard way.