imap-mailparser.js

/**
 * be sure to do:
 npm install imap
 npm install mailparser
**/
var Imap = require('imap'),
    MailParser = require('mailparser').MailParser,
    fs = require("fs");

/**
 * You must replace the parameters to the Imap constructor
 * with the appropriate email, password, host, port, tls 
 * and tlsOptions. See imap module's docs. The
 * settings below for host, port, tls and tlsOptions
 * work for gmail.
 **/
var imap = new Imap({
  user: '[email protected]',
  password: 'yourPassword',
  host: 'imap.gmail.com',
  port: 993,
  tls: true,
  tlsOptions: { rejectUnauthorized: false }
});

/**
 * this is more or less the example code from the imap README.md page
 * modified to work with mailparser. Changed it to use imap.search
 * method, changed the fetch to include all "bodies", and added
 * an instance of mailparser per email.
 *
 * wish there had been an example like this that showed the two 
 * together when I started. All examples were written back
 * in imap 0.7 days and didn't work with imap 0.8. This does work
 * with current versions of imap and mailparser as of 2014-03-24
**/
function openInbox(cb) {
  imap.openBox('INBOX', true, cb);
}
imap.once('ready', function() {
  openInbox(function(err, box) {
    if (err) throw err;
    //search for unread messages 
    imap.search([ 'UNSEEN', ['SINCE', 'March 22, 2014'] ], function(err, results) {
      if (err) throw err;
      try {
        var fetch = imap.fetch(results, { bodies: '', struct: true });
      } catch(error) {
        //fetch throws an exception if no errors are found
        console.log('no messages were found meeting search criteria');
        process.exit();
      }
      fetch.on('message', function(msg, seqno) {
        var prefix = '(#' + seqno + ') ';
        var buffer = '';
        var mailParser = new MailParser({ streamAttachments: true });
        mailParser.on("attachment", function(attachment){
          console.log('writing attachment: ' + attachment.generatedFileName);
          var output = fs.createWriteStream(attachment.generatedFileName);
          attachment.stream.pipe(output);
        });
        mailParser.on('end', function(mail_object) {
          console.log('in mailParser::end');
        });
        console.log('Message ' + prefix);
        msg.on('body', function(stream, info) {
          stream.on('data', function(chunk) {
            //build buffer with all the pieces of the mail message
            buffer += chunk.toString('utf8');
          });
          stream.once('end', function() {
            //send the entire mail message to mailParser
            console.log(prefix + " writing buffer to mailParser");
            mailParser.write(buffer);        
          });
        });
        msg.once('end', function() {
          console.log(prefix + 'Finished, calling mailParser');
          mailParser.end();
        });
      });
      fetch.once('error', function(err) {
        console.log('Fetch error: ' + err);
      });
      fetch.once('end', function() {
        console.log('Done fetching all messages!');
        imap.end();
      });
    });
  });
});

imap.once('error', function(err) {
  console.log('Imap error: ' + err);
});

imap.once('end', function() {
  console.log('Connection ended');
});

imap.connect();