Get the actual email message that the person just wrote, excluding any quoted text

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There are two pre-existing questions on the site. One for Python, one for Java.

• Java How to remove the quoted text from an email and only show the new text

Answer 1

There are many libraries out there that can help you extract the reply/signature from a message:

• Ruby: https://github.com/github/email_reply_parser
• Python: https://github.com/zapier/email-reply-parser or https://github.com/mailgun/talon
• JavaScript: https://github.com/turt2live/node-email-reply-parser
• Java: https://github.com/edlio/EmailReplyParser
• PHP: https://github.com/willdurand/EmailReplyParser

I've also read that MailGun offers a service to parse inbound email and POST its content to a URL of your choice. It will automatically strip quoted text from your emails: http://blog.mailgun.com/handle-incoming-emails-like-a-pro-mailgun-api-2-0/

Hope that helps!