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Getting Plain Text Emails from Gmail IMAP Search

Feb 18 '13 at 08:37

I am using the CkoImap Search method to return email from an abritrary IMAP server, in my test case, Gmail. Gmail appears to return emails in html format by default. Is there a way to tell GMAIL to return the emails in plain text? I realize I can strip out the html formatting on the client, just trying to see if the server will do it for me. Thanks.

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Answer

No, it's not possible. But the plain-text body of an email, if it exists, may be obtained as shown in this example: http://www.example-code.com/objc/email_body.asp