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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Tech stack
pythonhtml
Domain
backend
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
unclear
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of email structurePython programmingHTML parsing with BeautifulSoup
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
25
Research direction
The issue asks for signature detection in HTML emails. Currently, talon supports text/plain signatures. To implement this, one should research common email signature formats in HTML (e.g., using <div> with specific classes or separators). Look at the existing text/plain parsing code in the repository for reference. Consider using an HTML parser like BeautifulSoup to locate signature delimiters. The approach might involve detecting common patterns like horizontal rules, dashed lines, or specific CSS classes. The maintainers may need to clarify the desired behavior for HTML emails.