Handling emails

**Gerard Flanagan** · Oct 23 '06, 06:55 PM

Re: Handling emails

Fulvio wrote:

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Hello,
>
I'd like to ask some clue to move further on my project :-)
The purpose would be to gather all emails (local and remote ones) to do some
backup.
I've tried to get ideas by reading all about the modules enclose with python,
but neither email framework nor mailbox give me the idea how to handle *one*
email complete of payload and attachment (if any).

The 'PopClient' class here might help you:

http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/pagliacci.py.html

A script I use is here:

http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/getpopmail.py.html

There's a woeful lack of comments but hopefully you can figure it out!
It saves emails to the filesystem along with attachments. (Note that
the POP account passwords are stored as plain text.) It checks a mail's
message-id and doesn't download if it already has been downloaded.

hth

Gerard

**Fulvio** · Oct 24 '06, 04:15 PM

Re: Handling emails

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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:12, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

Message-id:
<96D4BF841562DA 44A7935AAC90A29 D6405E5611B@ems s01m12.us.lmco. com>
>
as the ID is generally created when the message is submitted to the
delivery system

Well, that's what I'm dealing with, since a couple of weeks :-) indeed.
Some might not have one, but Kmail should had fixed.
The second will be the way to get the whole email from the mbox file. My
problem still remain, partially. I'm not sure if the below procedure will
give me the emails off including multipart ones.

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#! /usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import generators

import email, re
import mailbox
import email.Message

def getmbox(name):
"""Return an mbox iterator given a file/directory/folder name."""
fp = open(name, "rb")
mbox = mailbox.Portabl eUnixMailbox(fp , get_message)
return iter(mbox)

def get_message(obj ):
"""Return an email Message object."""

if isinstance(obj, email.Message.M essage):
return obj
# Create an email Message object.
if hasattr(obj, "read"):
obj = obj.read()
try:
msg = email.message_f rom_string(obj)
except email.Errors.Me ssageParseError :

obj = obj[len(headers):]
msg = email.Message.M essage()
return msg

header_break_re = re.compile(r"\r ?\n(\r?\n)")

def extract_headers (text):
"""Very simple-minded header extraction"""

m = header_break_re .search(text)
if m:
eol = m.start(1)
text = text[:eol]
if ':' not in text:
text = ""
return text

if __name__ == '__main__':
#simple trial with local mbox file
import sys
try:
file =sys.argv[1]
except IOError:
print 'Must give a mbox file program /path/to_mbox'
sys.exit()
k = getmbox(file)
while 1:
full_email = get_message(k.n ext())
print '%78s' %full_email
answer= raw_input('More ? Y/N')
if answer.lower() == 'n': break

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I admit that not all code is my genuine design, ;-) some other programs
extrapolating have been done.

F

**Fulvio** · Oct 24 '06, 04:15 PM

Re: Handling emails

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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:07, Gerard Flanagan wrote:

The 'PopClient' class here might help you:

Thank you, both for the replies.
Gerard,
Surely I'll peep on that code ;-) to gather a wider perspective. A small
negative point is that for pop deals I've gotten a good success :-) But I
don't give up, perhaps it there'll be some good idea.
I'm more interested for the IMAP side of the issue, even I might avoid for my
own purposes.

Last, suppose to publish the "thing" where will it be the appropriate site?
At the present my program can do filtering and sincronizing with local MUA
trash. Small problems with IMAP protocol, but it may work for POP3 or IMAP4
on regex filter options. Alfa testers (cooperators) needed ;-)

F

**Fulvio** · Oct 25 '06, 08:45 AM

Re: Handling emails

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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:07, Gerard Flanagan wrote:

The 'PopClient' class here might help you:

I got a look rather later. Let me say that is impressively pythonic :-)
On the other hand I've to go deep on learning the use of Python classes, as
much as the POPClient likes a different config file and will upset a big
chunk of my code.
Functions are good, I'll study the emails handling, only I need some time to
prepair a method to discern local and remote emails and a way to save/recover
the most important ones.

F

**Gerard Flanagan** · Oct 25 '06, 11:15 AM

Re: Handling emails

Fulvio wrote:

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:07, Gerard Flanagan wrote:

The 'PopClient' class here might help you:

>
I got a look rather later. Let me say that is impressively pythonic :-)

I don't know if everyone would agree with you, but thanks!

Have you looked at the email.utils module? Some useful functions there.

All the best

Gerard

**Fulvio** · Oct 26 '06, 12:25 PM

Re: Handling emails

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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

# based upon bits from the (Active)Python 2.4 help system and other
code...

OK, good help, Thank you.
As I had confessed, that code was extrapolated from other sources and I took
it for granted as long as is working on my purpose.
Most of my purpose is to get the whole mail. Last function has no use.
Both code doing well the only difference is the way to call
email.message_f rom_(file|strin g)

F

**Ben Finney** · Oct 26 '06, 12:45 PM

Re: Handling emails

Fulvio <fulvio@tm.net. mywrites:

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Please stop sending messages with obnoxious headers like this.

**Steve Holden** · Oct 26 '06, 12:55 PM

Re: Handling emails

Ben Finney wrote:

Fulvio <fulvio@tm.net. mywrites:
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Please stop sending messages with obnoxious headers like this.
>

Please stop sending messages with obnoxious content like this.

If you insist on telling someone off publicly via a newsgroup, once is
enough. I agree it's a pain, but Fulvio may not have it in his power to
switch the header off. Mail admins do some incredibly stupid things.

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Steve
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**Ben Finney** · Oct 26 '06, 10:35 PM

Re: Handling emails

Steve Holden <steve@holdenwe b.comwrites:

Please stop sending messages with obnoxious content like this.

Yes, I guess I should have expected a response like that from someone
:-)

If you insist on telling someone off publicly via a newsgroup, once
is enough.

Apparently not. I tried initially contacting him privately. Then I
tried explaining in a (single) message to the list.

I agree it's a pain, but Fulvio may not have it in his power to
switch the header off. Mail admins do some incredibly stupid things.

There is always the option to not send messages to this list using
that mail server. I don't care what option is taken, so long as the
useless and obnoxious headers on his messages stop.

--
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Ben Finney

**Peter Decker** · Oct 27 '06, 01:15 AM

Re: Handling emails

On 10/26/06, Ben Finney <bignose+hate s-spam@benfinney. id.auwrote:

I agree it's a pain, but Fulvio may not have it in his power to
switch the header off. Mail admins do some incredibly stupid things.

>
There is always the option to not send messages to this list using
that mail server. I don't care what option is taken, so long as the
useless and obnoxious headers on his messages stop.
>
--
\ Lucifer: "Just sign the Contract, sir, and the Piano is yours." |
`\ Ray: "Sheesh! This is long! Mind if I sign it now and read it |
_o__) later?" -- http://www.achewood.com/ |
Ben Finney
>

Ah, but obnoxious footers are OK, I guess.

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**Ben Finney** · Oct 27 '06, 02:15 AM

Re: Handling emails

"Peter Decker" <pydecker@gmail .comwrites:

On 10/26/06, Ben Finney <bignose+hate s-spam@benfinney. id.auwrote:

There is always the option to not send messages to this list using
that mail server. I don't care what option is taken, so long as
the useless and obnoxious headers on his messages stop.

--
\ Lucifer: "Just sign the Contract, sir, and the Piano is yours." |
`\ Ray: "Sheesh! This is long! Mind if I sign it now and read it |
_o__) later?" -- http://www.achewood.com/ |
Ben Finney

>
Ah, but obnoxious footers are OK, I guess.

I guess. I maintain that there *is* a qualitative difference between a
spammy header block, irrelevant to the message content but intruding
upon it, at the top of the message; and a dignature block at the
bottom, *after* all the relevant material, separated by a standard
signature block separator.

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Ben Finney

**Fulvio** · Oct 27 '06, 04:15 PM

Re: Handling emails

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On Friday 27 October 2006 06:48, Ben Finney wrote:

There is always the option to not send messages to this list using
that mail server

Once again sorry for that. I'll take action to switch to another mailserver.
Thank for the advice

F

**Ben Finney** · Oct 27 '06, 11:15 PM

Re: Handling emails

Fulvio <fulvio@tm.net. mywrites:

On Friday 27 October 2006 06:48, Ben Finney wrote:

There is always the option to not send messages to this list using
that mail server

>
Once again sorry for that. I'll take action to switch to another
mailserver. Thank for the advice

That would be very much appreciated, thank you.

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