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by emersion 2915 days ago
Hi,

I'm the author of emailthreads, mentionned in the article. I believe the library is already able to do something pretty close to what you want. See for example this output: https://github.com/emersion/python-emailthreads/blob/master/... (you can find source messages in the parent directory)

The goal is to eventually build a web UI around this library.
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cryptonector 2915 days ago
Oh, I skipped that paragraph. Oy, sorry. I think the text format for interleaving source and commentary needs its own discussion somewhere, and probably a standalone repository separate from implementation (and some day preferably too, an RFC, or at least a MIME type registration).

I've looked at the examples you linked, and... I like that the review format for review authoring is just plain trivial. Not sure how it works with quote trimming... I'm not sure I like the output format, but I'll go think about it.

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emersion 2915 days ago
>I think the text format for interleaving source and commentary needs its own discussion somewhere, and probably a standalone repository separate from implementation (and some day preferably too, an RFC, or at least a MIME type registration).

Yeah, this library just parses email threads and the goal isn't to define a new format. This particular output format is just for debugging and unit testing, it's not meant to e actually used as is. The library user just gets a tree of text fragments with metadata, it's up to him how the output will look like.

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Sir_Cmpwn 2915 days ago
The output format is just a means of testing the library, not the final user-facing form this will take.
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Alex3917 2915 days ago
What's the main difference between the library you're building and mail parser?:

https://pypi.org/project/mail-parser/

Since there isn't any documentation, I'm just trying to figure out what's it's actually doing (without reading the source).

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Sir_Cmpwn 2915 days ago
The library emersion is working on does not parse an email, it parses a thread of emails. It can relate several emails together into a tree of responses to the original email and break down the responses to e.g. particular lines of code in a patch.
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