Script: GetMailBody

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.