Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
> On 29Aug2020 16:50, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> >However the problem appears to be that internally in Python 3 mailbox
> >class there is an assumption that it's being given 'ascii'. Here's
> >the error (and I'm doing no processing of the message at all):-
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py", line 102, in <module>
> > mailLib.deliverMboxMsg(dest, msg, log)
> > File "/home/chris/.mutt/bin/mailLib.py", line 52, in deliverMboxMsg
> > mbx.add(msg)
> [...]
>
> Here is the entire save-to-mbox code form my own mailfiler:
>
> text = M.as_string(True).replace('\nFrom ', '\n>From ')
> with open(folderpath, "a") as mboxfp:
> mboxfp.write(text)
>
> where M is the current message, a Message object.
>
> Note that this does _not_ assume ASCII output. The process here is:
>
> - transcribe the message to a Python 3 str (so Unicode code points)
> - replace embedded "From " to protect the mbox format
> - open the mbox for append - the _default_ encoding is utf-8
> - write the message in utf-8 because of the open mode
>
> This sidesteps the library you're using which may well do something
> ASCII based. And it has _never_ failed for me.
>
Thanks Caneron, but I have now finally fixed my problem, see the new
thread.
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