Nirnimesh wrote: > I want to extract emails from an mbox-type file which contains a number > of individual emails. > > I tried the python mailbox and email modules individually, but I'm > unable to combine them to get what I want. Mailbox allows me to iterate > over all the mails but doesn't give me access the individual messages > of a multipart mail. The email.Message module provides this, but I'm > unable to iterate through all the messages with this module. > > Here's what I want: > > Get a list of all messages from mbox-file > For each message, be able to read the header or body individually (so > that I can apply some operation) > > Does someone have experience in doing something of this sort? >
When you create your mailbox you need to provide a factory function, otherwise you get rfc822.Message objects. It's not obvious to me what that facory should be: I'm guessing you could get away with something like mymailbox = mailbox.UnixMailbox(fp, email.parser.Parser().parse) but I am far from convinced that will work, and have no time for testing right now. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
