I'm writing a program in python to sort the mail in standard Unix
email boxes. In my "prof of concept" example I am coping a letter to a
second mailbox if the letter was send from a particular email
address. When I read the destination mailbox with cat, I can see that
something is getting copied to it, but the mail program does not
recognize any new letters in the destination mailbox. It would seam
that the "OutFile.write(Message.get_unixfrom())" line is
essential. However if I run with this line uncommented then I get an
the following error. "TypeError: argument 1 must be string or
read-only character buffer, not None". I created this program by
following an example posted somewhere on the Internet, that I can't
seam to find anymore. At one time I was able to get Python to put new
letters in a mailbox.
Also, I was wondering is there were a way to use Python to delete items
from a mailbox. I could create I temp box of non-deleted then copy to
the source box, but that seams messy.
Here is my example program..
def CopyToBox(Source,Address,Destination):
AddressRE=re.compile(
"([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)")
InFile = open("/home/stevef/mail/%s" % Source)
OutFile = open("/home/stevef/mail/%s" % Destination,"a")
Box = mailbox.PortableUnixMailbox(InFile)
Envelope=Box.next()
while 1:
Envelope=Box.next()
if Envelope == None:
break
print Envelope.getallmatchingheaders("from")[0]
Match=AddressRE.search(
Envelope.getallmatchingheaders("from")[0])
if Match:
Set=Match.groups()
if "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" % Set == Address:
print "Copy letter from [EMAIL PROTECTED]" % Set
Message = email.message_from_file(Envelope.fp)
#OutFile.write(Message.get_unixfrom()) ##error
OutFile.write("\n")
OutFile.write(Message.as_string())
InFile.close()
OutFile.close()
return
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