mailgun/talon

Signature Detection in HTML Emails

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#14 opened on Sep 9, 2014

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Description

I haven't had a lot of success parsing signatures out of text/html emails. It seems to work pretty well for text/plain emails. Is there a good strategy to parse out the signature for text/html emails?

Thanks, Pete

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Research direction
Investigate parsing HTML email signatures by converting HTML to plain text or using specific libraries like BeautifulSoup to extract signature patterns, then compare with known signature delimiters.
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python
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Pythonemail parsing basics
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