Thanks Shawn, On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:47 AM Shawn Rutledge via Interest <interest@qt-project.org> wrote: > > > On 7 Nov 2023, at 09:28, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've been lurking a while to collect information for an upcoming > > project. I have not seen a similar topic, so I'm going to ask... > > > > I have a collection of email messages in mbox format. I obtain them > > from GMail, and Export Data operation. I can parse them into > > individual messages. For each message, I need to virtually display > > them in a Html-like view, and then print them to a pdf. > > > > Lurking and Google search is not turning up useful results. I saw KDE > > has some gear, like KMBox::MBox, but I want to stay in Qt. > > > > My question is, does Qt offer any support for mbox format? > > Not that I know of, but I’m sure you can find some C++ code somewhere. > > > Or rich > > email messages? > > Or do I need to extract the html parts of the message, and then supply > > a string to QTextBrowser? > > QTextBrowser’s HTML support is not very modern or complete. If you are not > satisfied with the rendering, maybe it’s better to use Qt Webengine. On the > other hand, in that case let’s hope you trust the senders. It’s becoming > rather insecure to let a browser download every remote image etc. that is > referenced in every HTML email; so in my mail clients I usually have that > feature turned off by default, so that there’s a button to optionally > download inline images only occasionally.
Thank you sir. > This sounds like something to try in Python rather than C++: it sounds like a > “scripty” thing to do rather than a long-lived application, you can use Qt, > and you can probably find code for mbox pretty easily too. I had to chuckle when I read the Python comment. I don't have Python or Perl skills. I go from slow (shell scripts) to fast (C++, Java and Go). There's no in-between. Lack of Python skill is such a pain point. Jeff _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
