# Mailread from stdlib **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 9, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailread-from-stdlib/103668 "2007-05-09T02:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_VSBreger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailread-from-stdlib/103668/1 "2007-05-09T02:25:17Z")
Hello mailread is written very bad. It unable to extract “From” field from mailbox (it can differ from any other header) Also it cann’t get all values from repeated headers, such as “Received”, only the last one ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_VSBreger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailread-from-stdlib/103668/2 "2007-05-09T02:36:18Z")
Hello again It also destroys Headers, for example: MIME-Version header becomes Mime-version I think, it is wrong ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Alex\_VSBreger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_VSBreger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailread-from-stdlib/103668/3 "2007-05-09T18:35:58Z")
On May 8, 4:36 pm, “Alex V. Breger” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > mailread is written very bad. > > It unable to extract “From” field from mailbox (it can differ from any > > other header) > > Also it cann’t get all values from repeated headers, such as > > “Received”, only the last one Have you looked at TMail? [http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/tmail/](http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/tmail/) I think there is a gem called ActionMailer, but it depends on actionpack and activesupport I believe. Mike B.