“missing word in phrase: charset not supported”, when using the mail package

Question

I\'m trying to parse emails and I get this kind of errors using the mail package. Is it a bug on the mail package or something I should handle myself ?

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Answer 1

I've been using github.com/jhillyerd/enmime which seems to have no trouble with this. It'll parse out both headers and body content. Given an io.Reader r:

// Parse message body
env, _ := enmime.ReadEnvelope(r)
// Headers can be retrieved via Envelope.GetHeader(name).
fmt.Printf("From: %v\n", env.GetHeader("From"))
// Address-type headers can be parsed into a list of decoded mail.Address structs.
alist, _ := env.AddressList("To")
for _, addr := range alist {
  fmt.Printf("To: %s <%s>\n", addr.Name, addr.Address)
}
fmt.Printf("Subject: %v\n", env.GetHeader("Subject"))

// The plain text body is available as mime.Text.
fmt.Printf("Text Body: %v chars\n", len(env.Text))

// The HTML body is stored in mime.HTML.
fmt.Printf("HTML Body: %v chars\n", len(env.HTML))

// mime.Inlines is a slice of inlined attacments.
fmt.Printf("Inlines: %v\n", len(env.Inlines))

// mime.Attachments contains the non-inline attachments.
fmt.Printf("Attachments: %v\n", len(env.Attachments))