Script: GetMailBody - jobisoft/quicktext GitHub Wiki

Sometimes, you want to perform action based on some item(s) present(s) in the body of the mail. For now, Quicktext has no shortcut to access it. Here is a short script that return you the body in plaintext or html format. It is also possible to return only the current selection.

Script

GetMailBody

var editor = this.mWindow.gMsgCompose.editor;
var text = editor.outputToString('text/plain', 0);
return text;

The two parameters formatType = 'text/plain' and flags = 0 of the function outputToString can be tweaked like documented here. For example using the following line would return the current selection as html:

var text = editor.outputToString('text/html', 1);

First parameter formatType:

'text/plain' return unformatted content (text)
'text/html' return formatted content (html)

Second parameter flags can be combined (for example 1 + 8 = 9) from the following values:

0 no special behaviour
1 OutputSelectionOnly
2 OutputFormatted
4 OutputRaw
8 OutputBodyOnly
16 OutputPreformatted
32 OutputWrap
64 OutputFormatFlowed
256 OutputEncodeW3CEntities
258 OutputAbsoluteLinks
512 OutputCRLineBreak
1024 OutputLFLineBreak
2048 OutputNoScriptContent
4096 OutputNoFramesContent
8192 OutputNoFormattingInPre
16384 OutputEncodeBasicEntities
32768 OutputEncodeLatin1Entities
65536 OutputEncodeHTMLEntities
131072 OutputPersistNBSP

Usage

Then, you can now use it to retrieve the body text in any other script:

MyWonderfulScript

text = await this.mQuicktext.get_script(["GetMailBody"])

//process the text string as you wish

An example for use with schleuder mailing list is explain here: Script: SchleuderResend.