[Users] Python scripts questions: message bodies and message view

[MJ Ray]

I'm trying to do some text processing on a selection of messages and
display the result.

Is it possible to get the message body as a string in python plugin
scripts? I can open the FilePath and parse it but I'm not sure that's
the best approach because I expect that clawsmail has already parsed it.

The other thing I'd like to know is how to edit/replace the contents of
the message view area - is that possible?  It would be nice to avoid
opening a new window for the script's output.

Thanks for any advice!
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