On 18 Mag, 05:51, David <ww...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing Python script to process e-mails in a user's mail
> account. What I want to do is to update that e-mail's Status to 'R'
> after processing it, however, the following script truncates old e-
> mails even though it updates that e-mail's Status correctly. Anybody
> knows how to fix this?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> fp = '/var/spool/mail/' + user
> mbox = mailbox.mbox(fp)
>
> for key, msg in mbox.iteritems():
> flags = msg.get_flags()
>
> if 'R' not in flags:
> # now process the e-mail
> # now update status
> msg.add_flag('R' + flags)
> mbox[key] = msg
I have no idea about your problem. However, I believe that the last
statement
"mbox[key] = msg" is not needed. The objects returned by
dict.iteritems are not copies but
the actual ones in the dictionary, so your msg.add_flag() already
modifies the object in mbox.
HTH
Ciao
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