Re: help with parsing email

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  • Maric Michaud

    Re: help with parsing email

    Le Monday 18 August 2008 12:43:02 Gabriel Genellina, vous avez écrit :
    En Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:50:57 -0300, Ahmed, Shakir <shahmed@sfwmd. gov
    escribió:
    I need to grab/parse numeric numbers such as app number from incoming
    emails stored in Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Exchange server) with
    specified subject line.

    The email body is like this

    myregion ; tst ; 11-Aug-2008


    80612-21_test_337683. pdf

    I need to extract 080612-21_ number from above line from incoming
    emails.
    >
    I can't help with the part dealing with Outlook - but once you retrieved
    the email body, it's easy:
    Three options here :

    - dealing directly with outlook mailboxes files, I used some open source code
    to parse .pst files in past, but you'll need some googling to match your
    requirements. Doesn't help if there is an instance of outlook running on the
    box.

    - use the outlook COM or even some windows MAPI interface via WIN32 API
    (pywin32), can't help with this one.

    - access emails directly on the Exchange server via standard python modules
    poplib or imaplib, my preferred choice if one of these protocols are
    supported by your environment. You won't need no extensions, just a standard
    python installation, and your code will work with most mail delivery agent
    and will run on all python supported platform.

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    Maric Michaud

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