[AC-4785] Open/ Read .msg and .eml file in Android and iOS.

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	n/a
Status	Resolved
Resolution	Won't Fix
Resolution Date	2017-02-10T13:15:32.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
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Reporter	Prafulla Bansode
Assignee	Shak Hossain
Created	2017-02-10T12:51:00.000+0000
Updated	2017-02-11T19:24:46.000+0000

Description

We are developing app in which we are receiving the attachments of the type .msg and .eml. We have to provide the feature where user can open and read the attachments. But we don’t see support in the documentviewer API call, is there any work around for the same? Currently, as there is no API for this to handle. we are considering it as the bug.

Comments

Hans Knöchel 2017-02-10

There is no native API (neither in iOS nor in Android) to expose this functionality. So you either have to parse the files on the server and return a HTML page that displays the content or do a feature-request at Apple and Google to expose this functionality. Of course this is a new feature and not a bug. Example (https://code.google.com/archive/p/php-mime-mail-parser / PHP):

   <?php
   require_once('MimeMailParser.class.php');
   
   $path = 'path/to/mail.txt'; 
   $Parser = new MimeMailParser(); 
   $Parser->setPath($path);
   
   $to = $Parser->getHeader('to'); 
   $from = $Parser->getHeader('from'); 
   $subject = $Parser->getHeader('subject'); 
   $text = $Parser->getMessageBody('text'); 
   $html = $Parser->getMessageBody('html'); 
   $attachments = $Parser->getAttachments();
   
   echo json_encode(array(
       'to' => $to,
       'from' => $from,
       'text' => $text,
       'html' => $html,
       'attachments' => $attachments,
   ));
   ?>

Resolving until the native SDK's support this functionality.

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