node-mail-stripper

Strip signatures and previous emails from email bodies

install

npm install node-mail-stripper

use

simple use

    stripper = new MailStripper();
    message = stripper.parse(mail);

MailStripper will parse the mail line by line. Whenever a line matches one of the patterns, it will be treated as a signature and the parsing of the email will stop. The output message will contain all the lines before that first 'signature' line

add custom rules

    stripper = new MailStripper({
        patterns: [
            /\d{7}/,
            /^####/,
        ]});
    message = stripper.parse(mail);

advanced signature parsing

If your provide the name of the sender of the message, MailStripper will detect a line containing only that name and spaces as a signature.

    stripper = new MailStripper();
    message = stripper.parse(mail, 'martin saint-macary');

contribute

If you find yourself adding rules that could be relevant to other projects, please add them directly to the source and send me a pull request or just create an issue and I'll add them myself

test

npm test

build

coffee -c -o . src/mail-stripper.coffee