Hi community,
This is the task I'm struggling with:
- A user sends me an email with the subject '*****3gp*****'
including an attached .3gp-file.
- I then fetch that email, extracts the attachement and stores
it localy as a file.
- I then run a python-script that parses the stored file
and generates an excel-file with statistics of that file
at a shared driver.
I'm using getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/)
(running on cygwin with cygwin python 2.4)
and the filter function provided to fetch my mail. getmail
starts my filter script and the mail is send using stdin.
I then read from stdin using
sys.stdin.read()
and the message is stored locally. The content of this stored file
is exactly the same as the mail sent to me.
I then parse that message using
fp = open(tmp_file,'rb')
p = email.Parser.Parser()
The problem I'm having is when I'm trying to extract the
attachement using
f=open(Filename, "wb")
f.write(msg.get_payload(decode=1))
f.close()
Not the whole message is decoded and stored!
When only trying
f.write(msg.get_payload())
I see that the last 255 bytes are missing.
How is this possible, I receive every last byte from stdin?
I then tried calling my windows python installation (2.4) instead of
the cygwin thingie, but that didn't work either.
Doing this using IDLE for windows or a cmdprompt for cygwin works
great!
Any ideas 'bout what I'm doing wrong here?
cheers
//Fredrik
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