Postal-mime

lastmod 2025-01-22created 2025-01-221 edits

Email parsing library for browsers and serverless

Features

• Runs in browser environments (including Web Workers) and serverless functions (such as Cloudflare Email Workers)
• Reads RFC822 email messages and parses them into a structure made of objects such as headers/recipients/attachments
• PostalMime.parse(email, options) -> Promise<ParsedEmail>
  • Returns a structured object as a Promise
  • Keys/values of all headers
  • Name/email address of from, sender
  • deliveredTo, returnPath
  • to, cc, bcc, replyTo
  • messageId, inReplyTo, references
  • date : sent date in ISO8601 format
  • html
  • text
  • Attachments : filename, mimeType, disposition, related (true for inline images), contentId, content, encoding

See also

• email
• EmailEngine - made by the open-source team that built access to IMAP/SMTP via a REST API

Favorite site

• Github - postalsys/postal-mime