# Actionmailer whoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-whoes/172924 "2009-07-30T01:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-whoes/172924/1 "2009-07-30T01:24:17Z")
Im pulling some emails off of a server, parsing them with TMail and looping through them in the view and displaying them. My problem is that I want to display the html emails I have but when I put them on the page the and tags of the email Im importing are being injected into my sites html and body tags, which leads to some extremely weird results. If I escape the html via h @mail.body\_html, I of course get a garbled mess. Any ideas on how to cut out these tags properly? ---
**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-whoes/172924/2 "2009-07-30T02:51:42Z")
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Dan Dunn[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Im pulling some emails off of a server, parsing them with TMail and > looping through them in the view and displaying them. My problem is > that I want to display the html emails I have but when I put them on the > page the and tags of the email Im importing are being > injected into my sites html and body tags, which leads to some extremely > weird results. If I escape the html via h @mail.body\_html, I of course > get a garbled mess. Any ideas on how to cut out these tags properly? Use something like hpricot to (short version) get the innerHTML of the BODY element of the email. The doc/examples are pretty straightforward, but post back if you have problems with it. ## HTH, Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid twitter: @hassan