@bobfrankston/mailx-imap 0.1.84 → 0.1.85

package/index.js

@@ -118,18 +118,30 @@ async function extractPreview(source) {
         // remaining base64 data: URIs (rare: text/plain copies generated
         // from a Quill compose pasted-image HTML) collapsed to [image] too.
         let raw;
-        if (bodyHtml) {
-            // Drop the CONTENTS of style/script/head blocks and HTML comments
-            // first — a plain tag-strip removes the <style> tags but leaves the
-            // CSS rules between them, which then leak into the preview as
-            // `*{box-sizing:border-box}` / `@media …{ … }` garbage (Bob's
-            // 2026-05-31 marketing-mail shot). Order matters: kill blocks, then
-            // images → [image], then any remaining tags.
+        // PREFER the plain-text rendering for the summary. The HTML→[image]
+        // path turns an image-heavy marketing/tracking email into a useless
+        // "[image] [image] [image]…" wall — the "[no summary]" Bob hit
+        // 2026-06-04. mailparser's `text` is the text/plain alternative when
+        // present, otherwise a tags-and-images-stripped rendering of the HTML,
+        // i.e. the actual words. Only fall back to HTML when there's no usable
+        // text at all (genuinely image-only mail).
+        const textCandidate = (bodyText || "").replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
+        if (textCandidate.length >= 3) {
+            raw = bodyText;
+        }
+        else if (bodyHtml) {
+            // No usable text part. Strip style/script/head + comments (CSS would
+            // otherwise leak into the preview — Bob 2026-05-31), then prefer an
+            // <img alt="…"> caption over the bare "[image]" token, and collapse
+            // runs of placeholders so even this fallback isn't a wall.
             raw = bodyHtml
                 .replace(/<!--[\s\S]*?-->/g, " ")
                 .replace(/<(style|script|head)\b[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/\1>/gi, " ")
+                .replace(/<img\b[^>]*\balt\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"[^>]*>/gi, " $1 ")
+                .replace(/<img\b[^>]*\balt\s*=\s*'([^']+)'[^>]*>/gi, " $1 ")
                 .replace(/<img\b[^>]*>/gi, " [image] ")
-                .replace(/<[^>]+>/g, " ");
+                .replace(/<[^>]+>/g, " ")
+                .replace(/(\[image\]\s*){2,}/g, "[image] ");
         }
         else {
             raw = bodyText;

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bobfrankston/mailx-imap",
-  "version": "0.1.84",
+  "version": "0.1.85",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "index.js",
   "types": "index.d.ts",