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Show HN: ParseMail.org – A tool for email admins (parsemail.org)
8 points by mike-cardwell on July 4, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



From the about page:

Paste the raw source of an email into the form on the front page. The email will then be parsed, decoded, separated into it's various MIME parts, and displayed in an easy to view fashion. Image attachments will be displayed as images. HTML parts will be rendered in webkit (with javascript and plugins disabled) and then also displayed as an image. IP addresses in headers and message bodies will be identified and highlighted along with a flag representing their origin country. Hostnames and email addresses will also be identified and highlighted.

What's the point? If you run email systems for a living, you may find this useful as tool for quickly identifying important information in emails you find in your message queues and mailboxes.


This is pretty cool. What's the backend written in? I'm sure a lot of devs out there would really love to have a look at it, since parsing email isn't any fun!


Python and Django. I do plan to open source it as I did with https://emailprivacytester.com/ - I just need to find a bit of time to package it up nicely and stick it on github.

I started learning Python a couple of weeks ago and this is my first project using it.





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