simple script to read and output Mailbox body to file.

[Chuck Amadi]

Re: simple script to read and output Mailbox body to file.

Hi again

I get output desired .Now to parse the fileobject and all body messages to an
external File named SurveyResults.t xt
Is this the correct way to go about it .

for mail in mbox:
# body = mail.get_payloa d()
# bodies.append(b ody)
# msg = mail.message_fr om_file(mail)
print 'mail'
print mail['Subject']
print mail.get_conten t_type()#text/plain
print mail.get_payloa d()
# break # just look at one message

# The File SurveyResults.t xt must all ready exist.
output = open("SurveyRes ults.txt", 'w') # mode 'w' means open the file for
writ-ing (any data already in the file will be erased)
mailout = mail.get_payloa d()
output. writelines(mail out)

output. close() # this is at end of the script

Here's my error but I thought mail is my file

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "getSurveyMailR ev2.py", line 37, in ?
mailout = mail.get_payloa d()
NameError: name 'mail' is not defined

[Chuck Amadi]

Re: simple script to read and output Mailbox body to file.


Hi please could someone point to what I have done wrong as the script runs
with no errors but the file I am trying to parse the print statement output
too instead of just the screen/command line to another file.

I have digested the Input and Output and text formatting docs and I read
something about using stdout to a file . Can someone point me in the right
direction.

Cheers my code below.

############### ############### ############### ############### ###
## This script will open and parse email messages body content.
## This Python script will reside on Mail Server on ds9:
## Emails are all plain/text you could just write the following
## Which will leave a list of strings , each one a message body.
## The Survey User is testwws and the .procmailrc file folder is
## Survey . i.e /home/testwws/Mail/inbox/Survey .
############### ############### ############### ############### ###
## file:getSurveyM ail.py Created : 06/06/04 Amended date: 09/06/04
## Revision 1. make copy to continue called getSurveyMailRe v2.py
############### ############### ############### ############### ###

#The following line makes it run itself(executab le script on UN*X)
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import os
import email
import mailbox
import StringIO

# Open the testwws user mailbox (tmp user chuck)
# fp denotes factory paraemeter
# mode can be 'r' when the file will only be read, 'w' for only writing
#(an existing file with the same name will be erased), and 'a' opens the file
# for appending; any data written to the file is automatically added to the end.
# 'r+' opens the file for both reading and writing. The mode.

# The File SurveyResults.t xt must all ready exist.

#mailout = open("/home/chuck/pythonScript/SurveyResults.t xt") # mode 'w' means open the file for writ-ing
# (any data already in the file will be erased)
#output.writeli nes(mailout)
mailout = file("/home/chuck/pythonScript/SurveyResults.t xt")

# open() returns a file object, and is most commonly used with two arguments:
# "open(filen ame, mode)".
fp = open("/home/chuck/pythonScript/testbox")

# message_from_fi le returns a message object struct tree from an
# open file object.

mbox = mailbox.UnixMai lbox(fp, email.message_f rom_file)
# list of body messages.
bodies = []

# mail is the file object
for mail in mbox:
print 'mail'
print mail['Subject']
print mail.get_conten t_type()#text/plain
print mail.get_payloa d()


# First open the testbox file to read(r) and write(w)to the SurveyResults.t xt
#fp = open("testbox", "r")
mailout = open("/home/chuck/pythonScript/SurveyResults.t xt","w")

# Read the testbox file into a list then copy to
# new file.
for mail in fp.readlines():
mailout.write(m ail)

print "testbox file copied...to SurveyResults.t xt"

# Now close the files
fp.close()
mailout.close()

#mailout.close to close it and free up any system resources taken up by the open file.
# After calling output.close(), attempts to use the file object will automatically fail.