On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Marc Bossiere wrote:

> Well I knew it was plain text, but my problem then is I could really use the rules it follows so 
> that I can write a script to extract (reliably) the basic email format without all the other 
> garbage, such as:
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: April 22, 2010 
> Subject: Sample email
> Then the body of the mail here
> 
> The trouble is that I've looked over many sample emails in EML format and I can't get a 
> handle on the structural logic too well. I would prefer a clear explanation of it so I can script 
> a solution myself, but if someone already has a script for this conversion I'm not too proud to 
> use it! 
> 
> Marc
> 

Not entirely sure what an EML file is, but if it just the raw email then Headers come first with the name of the header (From, Subject, To) beginning a line, followed by a colon.  Any continuation lines must begin with whitespace.  Headers are separated from the body by a blank line. 

The rfc defining email message format can be found here http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt

If you don't wan to tear the thing apart yourself, Mail should be able to open a .EML file and is reasonable scriptable.

-Mark
Wondering why Indesign says something doesn't exist, but when I copy the event log it says it does.