olavgg/EmailReplyParser

Small Java library to parse plain text email content

Email Reply Parser for Java

A port of GitHub's Email Reply Parser library, by the fine folks at Driftt.

Summary

Email Reply Parser makes it easy to grab only the last reply to an on-going email thread.

Say you'd like to parse out a user's response to your transaction email messages:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Driftt <support@driftt.com> wrote:

> Our support team just commented on your open Ticket:
> "Hi Rico, can we chat in the morning about your question?"

Email clients handle reply formatting differently, making parsing a pain. We include tests for many cases. The parsed email:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

Installation

Using maven:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.driftt.email</groupId>
            <artifactId>EmailReplyParser</artifactId>
            <version>0.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Tutorial

How to parse an email message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

import static com.driftt.email.EmailMessage.read;

Step 2: Provide email message as type String

EmailMessage message = read(contents);

How to only retrieve the reply message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

import static com.driftt.email.EmailMessage.read;

Step 2: Provide email message as type string using parse_reply class method.

String reply = read(contents).getReply();