On 04Nov2024 13:02, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
OK, so I can do:
######################################################################
if args.verbose:
for k in mail.keys():
print(f"{k}: {mail.get(k)}")
print('')
print(mail.get_content())
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prints what I want and is not wildly clunky, but I am a little surprised
that I can't get a string representation of the whole email in one go.
A string representation of the whole message needs to be correctly
encoded so that its components can be identified mechanically. So it
needs to be a syntacticly valid RFC5322 message. Thus the encoding.
As an example (slightly contrived) of why this is important, multipart
messages are delimited with distinct lines, and their content may not
present such a line (even f it's in the "raw" original data).
So printing a whole message transcribes it in the encoded form so that
it can be decoded mechanically. And conservativly, this is usually an
ASCII compatibly encoding so that it can traverse various systems
undamaged. This means the text requiring UTF8 encoding get further
encoded as quoted printable to avoid ambiguity about the meaning of
bytes/octets which have their high bit set.
BTW, doesn't this:
for k in mail.keys():
print(f"{k}: {mail.get(k)}")
print the quoted printable (i.e. not decoded) form of subject lines?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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