After just a slight distraction earlier today (such as catastrophic server crashes… now resolved!) I managed to get back on track with my goal for the day… letting TweetByMail understand and process HTML formatted messages.

As of now, it can succesfully handle HTML “Rich Text” emails coming from Gmail.com.

For now, any other HTML emails will still return the “Plain text only” reminder message. Sorry about that, but I need to collect a bit more samples before I’m confident that it will handle the message alright. Better safe than making a mess of your Twitter account.

Speaking of making a mess, I also had my first run in with an encoded message. After spitting out gobbledy-gook the first few times, I’ve now got it so that a base64 encoded message will be first decoded, then processed.

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