-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/2015 3:58 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Anthony Papillion > <anth...@cajuntechie.org> wrote: >> I'm writing a script that will have email with attachments passed >> to it via Postfix. Postfix is properly passing the email to the >> script but I'm not quite sure how to get at the attachment. What >> I need to do is save the attachment out to the filesystem. >> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > If I understand the situation correctly, you're getting a > MIME-formatted email, and want to decode it into a usable > attachment - right? > > Python includes a package for teasing apart RFC[2]822 format > emails: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.html > > Check out the email.parser module, or the convenience function > email.message_from_string - you should be able to get at the > different parts (including attachments) from there. >
Many thanks! Checking it out now. Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Anthony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWHCufAAoJEAKK33RTsEsVfeUP/3YWWDwVglwHXkHGrY3AkWol yyTeJyy+s8RQvza1gHcR3yv2gZs7PAI8azFjkMmlsicaB+dqdP1ffxd2eXK3TVlh GTOuCe7dHNgJ4EMpREr3RtJVbvQBX3ygmZaZY9jqPRCpG40TfOCaEOXjGABLukwi DP9j65tyIYRJsImmQ4RJ6L2AcrgGC3QTU1wCPPWaYD9AWLFyfR4be02vGGZODbYs QnKw1MrHrQBWMYaVKlhkvHVJIa68q/wIH4yPfE8tPejykRQ0OFUDfp8a9zveNU7U zIjeVU02jL3ijGXK1LxNz3mtt+aRletecOFbLtCMLY9TLwGTquXRyQzl28oOukh+ Uy/rYf9ZK8g2qrOEELyJXy4x0K6MpTdF+hN85oYkCl802uEsqlxUsU/EocUs6uIX GIXrevDSvdQDbujMUPg4TQKmkhNN5/fC40NQGFd/xcxljTqHZ/bl4MinDT9ZxYFk OLwEpCVZfTMJvYxGEfBS1GQvKxeRKzPgXeV70YgXh0GIl339Bq1znpObnlYNuVki cBRqos2RUAanzgkQ6jqoE0KknP/wPZL/nJA1MR67lV64j5zqMD/b+Pw44K/u9QNP YZnXzto8EUJ9Zs4i7LrZcFuRpE+WjFyP39XPGiMZN7+/S9++CVfgu0SLLT3VrHWc v7WzAa3wNEnR8O35bhvH =xwRy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
