Special work to never include previous posts in parsed emails. Also a new attempt

to catch reply strings in different languages.

lib/email/receiver.rb

@@ -19,10 +19,18 @@ module Email
       return Email::Receiver.results[:unprocessable] if @raw.blank?
 
       @message = Mail::Message.new(@raw)
-      @body = EmailReplyParser.read(parse_body).visible_text
 
+
+      # First remove the known discourse stuff.
+      parse_body
       return Email::Receiver.results[:unprocessable] if @body.blank?
 
+      # Then run the github EmailReplyParser on it in case we didn't catch it
+      @body = EmailReplyParser.read(@body).visible_text
+
+      discourse_email_parser
+
+      return Email::Receiver.results[:unprocessable] if @body.blank?
       @reply_key = @message.to.first
 
       # Extract the `reply_key` from the format the site has specified
@@ -49,7 +57,8 @@ module Email
       if @message.multipart?
         @message.parts.each do |p|
           if p.content_type =~ /text\/plain/
-            return p.body.to_s
+            @body = p.body.to_s
+            return @body
           elsif p.content_type =~ /text\/html/
             html = p.body.to_s
           end
@@ -58,10 +67,11 @@ module Email
 
       html = @message.body.to_s if @message.content_type =~ /text\/html/
       if html.present?
-        return scrub_html(html)
+        @body = scrub_html(html)
+        return @body
       end
 
-      return @message.body.to_s.strip
+      @body = @message.body.to_s.strip
     end
 
     def scrub_html(html)
@@ -76,8 +86,27 @@ module Email
       return doc.xpath("//text()").text
     end
 
-    def create_reply
+    def discourse_email_parser
+      lines = @body.lines
+      range_end = 0
 
+      email_year =
+      lines.each_with_index do |l, idx|
+
+        break if l =~ /\A\s*\-{3,80}\s*\z/ ||
+                 l =~ Regexp.new("\\A\\s*" + I18n.t('user_notifications.previous_discussion') + "\\s*\\Z") ||
+                 # This one might be controversial but so many reply lines have years, times and end with a colon.
+                 # Let's try it and see how well it works.
+                 (l =~ /\d{4}/ && l =~ /\d:\d\d/ && l =~ /\:$/)
+
+        range_end = idx
+      end
+
+      @body = lines[0..range_end].join
+      @body.strip!
+    end
+
+    def create_reply
       # Try to post the body as a reply
       creator = PostCreator.new(email_log.user,
                                 raw: @body,