On 22Jan2022 21:26, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: >So I need to test whether a point I have reached in the hierarchy is a >maildir mailbox or not. Using mbox format it's easy because 'folders' >are directories and mailboxes are files. However with maildir the >'folders' have directories within them so the simple tree walking goes >down a level too far and finds 'folders' which aren't mailboxes called >'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. > >Is there any 'ready made' way in python to tell whether a directory is >a maildir mailbox? If not I suppose I'll simply have to check if >there are 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories within the directory >which may or may not be a maildir.
I was hoping that the provided mailbox/Maildir class had something, but apparently not. So I suggest fetching my cs.mailutils module from PyPI and using its ismaildir(path) function, which does exactly what you describe. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
