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Extract plain text body from TMail parsed email

Here’s a monkey patch for TMail::Mail I wrote to recurse through a message and extract all plain text body components of that message, returning an Array. For most use cases, the resulting Array will contain one String element.

Currently I put this code in a file called lib/tmail_extensions.rb and require ‘tmail_extensions’ in environment.rb

module TMail
  class Mail
    def plain_text_body
      gather_plain_text_parts(self).flatten
    end

  private
    def gather_plain_text_parts(part)    
      returning [] do |message|
        message << part.body.strip if part.content_type == 'text/plain'        
        part.parts.each { |p| message << gather_plain_text_parts(p) }
      end
    end
  end
end