[Mimedefang] documentation bug/omission for newbies

[starlight.2016q2 at binnacle.cx]

I'm still having trouble seeing it--apologies.  Spent most of an hour going through the presentation deck Saturday while writing the body regex scanner and did not find anything that addresses it.  Just looked again searching the document for "body," "open," "text," "match" "regex," "regular," "expression," "getline" and "match" with no luck.

Seems perhaps an area where anyone solving the problem in the past never posted about it.  At this point I cannot picture a simpler correct solution than the one posted at the top of this thread.

Reading MIME-tools documentation was helpful but an (admittedly minor) gap exists between the class package documentation and the way that mimedefang presents the $entity MIME object.  This lead to my hackfest where I figured it out through trial-and-error (more error than trial I suppose).

On the bright side search-engines should lead others to this thread if they require something similar.

Regards



At 15:42 4/18/2016 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:32:37 -0400
>starlight.2016q2 at binnacle.cx wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I don't see how that works.  The filter()
>> method is described as being called for each part
>> where I want to examine just the body, explicitly
>> disregard subsequent parts and attachments.  Also
>> I don't see any simplified message body access in
>> the parameters to filter() and haven't come across
>> an example.  Would appreciate a pointer to one.
>
>We have a tutorial slide deck... slightly out of date,
>but mostly still accurate.
>
>http://www.mimedefang.org/static/mimedefang-lisa04.pdf
>
>Regards,
>
>Dianne.