Some use case examples for a content email parser include: There is a wide number of domains that use email parsers to help them automate their businesses. There are also a number of online SaaS platforms that offer MIME parsing as a service, such as: There is a large variety of open-source libraries that provide email MIME parsing in most programming language. Such parser can extract the header (that includes the sender email, recipient email, subject, date, etc.), extract the body of the email and any attachment. Įmails MIME parsers are used to decode emails encoded in MIME. Like most internet standard, MIME has been defined through a set of RFCs (Requests for comment) by the IETF: mainly RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 4288, RFC 4289 and RFC 2049.
MIME format supports the handling of different character sets, non-text attachments (such as pictures, audio) and multi-part message body which allows to combine it all altogether. MIME (for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the internet standard format in which emails are encoded. No, not that kind of Mime (© Alyssia Booth)Īudience: MIME parsers are intended for people with a technical / programming background.
then, it uses grammar and context to understand the meaning of the words put together to make a sentence.it first identifies a sequence of letters to make words.While you are reading this exact sentence, a sequence of letters on a screen, your brain makes sense of the meaning of it. Let's take an example if this is still too obscure. This is usually done using parse trees for lexical and syntactic analyses.
With fancy words, data parsing means the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar (thank you Wikipedia for making us look smart here).Ī parser is a computer program that define a set of instructions in its source code to to analyse input sentences and transform them into data structures. In fact, a parser is a tool that can analyze and identify meaningful parts in a text. So a parser has something to do with identifying parts of something. Etymologically, the verb to parse comes from the Latin pars which meant the plural of part.