Ask YC: Favorite email parsing library?

leave the parsing to someone else and use plan9's upas mail file system

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/upas_mail_system/

http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/nupas.pdf

now available for plan9port on Unix

we don't need no stinking APIs and Libs, give us grep awk sed and cat

Best parser I've found for PHP is the Pear mimeDecode library. Takes a bit of time to figure out the header parsing but it's pretty decent at handling the UW torture test.

rmail for ruby totally rocks for parsing emails. I haven't used it for the mbox format but I think it can handle it.

hmm, i've parsed email before. is there something specific to email encoding than general files? such as parsing the "encoding" header thingy? anything else?

upasfs(4) http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/upasfs

Edit: Damn, skwiddor beat me to it :)