[Discuss] Converting "rich" (MIME) email to plain text

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Tiernan
> 
> I'm sure that I'm not the first who tried to find an easy way to filter
> a piece of email so that only the plain text comes out.
> 
> I can find lots of things about going plain to HTML but I've not seen
> anything that allows you to just extract the "Content-Type: text/plain"
> section of an email.
> 
> Any pointers available? I don't want to try and reinvent the reinvented
> wheel.

Where is the original? I like C# / mono programming, so I would personally write a 10-line program to download mail and extract the parts I want, using MailKit.