Hello!

I am trying to do a machine learning project on email bodies. Therefore, I'd like to use the Resilient REST API to download the emails. The emails are attached to incidents as EML files. However, when I download the file with the API, I don't have a simple way of extracting the mail body.

I have tried using regex to extract the body, but there does not seem to be a clear way of doing so, as the EML cosists of a bunch of metadata, followed by the body. Since the meta data varies from mail to mail, this becomes hard.

I have also tried searching for EML parsers, but without luck.

Has anyone come across an easy way of extracting the mail body from EML attachments?

Unfortunately, I cannot supply any examples as all the mails I have cotain sensitive information.

Thank you guys in advance!

//Andreas :)

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Andreas Rasmussen
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Hi Andreas,

Take a look at our email parsing logic in fn_utilities: https://github.com/ibmresilient/resilient-community-apps/blob/master/fn_utilities/fn_utilities/components/utilities_email_parse.py

It's a complex solution which uses a perl module for some of the parsing. It's possible to create a new function to extract the email message and then pass that data from that into this email parsing function for the data extraction. 

Good luck,
Mark

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Mark Scherfling
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed September 07, 2022 06:46 AM
From: Andreas Rasmussen
Subject: Extract email body from EML file

Hello!

I am trying to do a machine learning project on email bodies. Therefore, I'd like to use the Resilient REST API to download the emails. The emails are attached to incidents as EML files. However, when I download the file with the API, I don't have a simple way of extracting the mail body.

I have tried using regex to extract the body, but there does not seem to be a clear way of doing so, as the EML cosists of a bunch of metadata, followed by the body. Since the meta data varies from mail to mail, this becomes hard.

I have also tried searching for EML parsers, but without luck.

Has anyone come across an easy way of extracting the mail body from EML attachments?

Unfortunately, I cannot supply any examples as all the mails I have cotain sensitive information.

Thank you guys in advance!

//Andreas :)

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Andreas Rasmussen
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