From kalpana.sinduria at patni.com  Sat May  7 11:54:02 2005
From: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com (Kalpana Sinduria)
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:24:02 +0530
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
Message-ID: <000a01c552ea$b2f73ee0$46a6a8c0@patni.com>

Hi All,
	I am new for python. working on Linux, having python 2.2 ver.
	I have to write a C++ code to convert Microsoft .msg file to plain .txt
file.

	Is it possible to parse Microsoft .msg  using python's email package and
save it as .txt file.
	I am interested only in "from", "CC", "subject", "Date time " and "message
body" not in attachment with .msg file.

Rgds,
Kalpana


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From barry at python.org  Sat May  7 15:02:29 2005
From: barry at python.org (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 09:02:29 -0400
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
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References: <000a01c552ea$b2f73ee0$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
Message-ID: <1115470949.12511.153.camel@presto.wooz.org>

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 05:54, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:

> 	I am new for python. working on Linux, having python 2.2 ver.
> 	I have to write a C++ code to convert Microsoft .msg file to plain .txt
> file.
> 
> 	Is it possible to parse Microsoft .msg  using python's email package and
> save it as .txt file.
> 	I am interested only in "from", "CC", "subject", "Date time " and "message
> body" not in attachment with .msg file.

If it's stored in plain text RFC 2822 format, then sure <wink>.  If not,
then no, email's parse wouldn't be able to handle it.  Is the format
even documented?  I've heard that it's nearly impossible to get the full
plain text message out of some Microsoft tools.

-Barry

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From kalpana.sinduria at patni.com  Sun May  8 11:39:08 2005
From: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com (Kalpana Sinduria)
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 15:09:08 +0530
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
In-Reply-To: <1115470949.12511.153.camel@presto.wooz.org>
Message-ID: <000001c553b1$c9590b60$46a6a8c0@patni.com>

Hi,
	no it's not in plain .txt format. it's in Microsoft's outlook message
(.msg) format.
	I tired the following code, but it's not working

	******************
	  import email.Parser
        fp = open('mymail.msg', 'rb')
        p = email.Parser.Parser()
        msg = p.parse(fp)  ---- > error
        fp.close()
	 ******************

Error are:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/email/Parser.py", line 62, in parse
self._parseheaders(root, fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/email/Parser.py", line 128, in _parseheaders
raise Errors.HeaderParseError(
email.Errors.HeaderParseError: Not a header, not a continuation: ``
????%__substg1.0_0064001E*????????????$__substg1.0_0065001E*
????#_substg1.0_0070001E*????????????"__substg1.0_00710102*????!__substg1.0_
0C190102*????????????I__substg1.0_0C1A001E*????__substg1.0_0C1D0102*????????
????
__substg1.0_0C1E001E*????__substg1.0_0C1F001E*????????_substg1.0_0E1D001E*??
??????????__substg1.0_1000001E*????$__substg1.0_1008001E*????????????e__subs
tg1.0_10090102*????''
>>> PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY' is not defined
>>>


Rgds,
Kalpana

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Warsaw [mailto:barry at python.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 6:32 PM
To: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com
Cc: email-sig at python.org
Subject: Re: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt


On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 05:54, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:

> 	I am new for python. working on Linux, having python 2.2 ver.
> 	I have to write a C++ code to convert Microsoft .msg file to plain .txt
> file.
>
> 	Is it possible to parse Microsoft .msg  using python's email package and
> save it as .txt file.
> 	I am interested only in "from", "CC", "subject", "Date time " and
"message
> body" not in attachment with .msg file.

If it's stored in plain text RFC 2822 format, then sure <wink>.  If not,
then no, email's parse wouldn't be able to handle it.  Is the format
even documented?  I've heard that it's nearly impossible to get the full
plain text message out of some Microsoft tools.

-Barry




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From barry at python.org  Sun May  8 17:27:11 2005
From: barry at python.org (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 11:27:11 -0400
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
In-Reply-To: <000001c553b1$c9590b60$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
References: <000001c553b1$c9590b60$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
Message-ID: <1115566030.12503.222.camel@presto.wooz.org>

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 05:39, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:

> 	no it's not in plain .txt format. it's in Microsoft's outlook message
> (.msg) format.
> 	I tired the following code, but it's not working
> 
> 	******************
> 	  import email.Parser
>         fp = open('mymail.msg', 'rb')
>         p = email.Parser.Parser()
>         msg = p.parse(fp)  ---- > error
>         fp.close()
> 	 ******************

Yeah, there's no way that's going to work.  email.Parser (really
FeedParser in 3.0) can only parse RFC 2822 messages.  The nice thing is
that if you could write a parser for MS Outlook files, you could then
use the rest of the email package to manipulate those message objects. 
Contributions are welcome. :)

-Barry

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From kalpana.sinduria at patni.com  Mon May  9 06:09:04 2005
From: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com (Kalpana Sinduria)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:39:04 +0530
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
In-Reply-To: <1115566030.12503.222.camel@presto.wooz.org>
Message-ID: <000701c5544c$d780d740$46a6a8c0@patni.com>

Thanks for reply. i tried to hard to get the file format of microsoft
outlook (.msg). but didn't get it.
any idea, from where i can get that?


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Warsaw [mailto:barry at python.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:57 PM
To: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com
Cc: email-sig at python.org
Subject: RE: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt


On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 05:39, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:

> 	no it's not in plain .txt format. it's in Microsoft's outlook message
> (.msg) format.
> 	I tired the following code, but it's not working
>
> 	******************
> 	  import email.Parser
>         fp = open('mymail.msg', 'rb')
>         p = email.Parser.Parser()
>         msg = p.parse(fp)  ---- > error
>         fp.close()
> 	 ******************

Yeah, there's no way that's going to work.  email.Parser (really
FeedParser in 3.0) can only parse RFC 2822 messages.  The nice thing is
that if you could write a parser for MS Outlook files, you could then
use the rest of the email package to manipulate those message objects.
Contributions are welcome. :)

-Barry




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From anthony at interlink.com.au  Mon May  9 11:28:46 2005
From: anthony at interlink.com.au (Anthony Baxter)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:28:46 +1000
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
In-Reply-To: <000701c5544c$d780d740$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
References: <000701c5544c$d780d740$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
Message-ID: <200505091928.47923.anthony@interlink.com.au>

On Monday 09 May 2005 14:09, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:
> Thanks for reply. i tried to hard to get the file format of microsoft
> outlook (.msg). but didn't get it.
> any idea, from where i can get that?

Googling for "outlook mailbox linux", the second link is:
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.shtml

This looks like it might have the information you need.

(disclaimer: I've not even looked at the howto, nor do I have
any interest or need to read outloook mailbox files...)


-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

From barry at python.org  Mon May  9 13:52:29 2005
From: barry at python.org (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 07:52:29 -0400
Subject: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt
In-Reply-To: <000701c5544c$d780d740$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
References: <000701c5544c$d780d740$46a6a8c0@patni.com>
Message-ID: <1115639549.12511.256.camel@presto.wooz.org>

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 00:09, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:
> Thanks for reply. i tried to hard to get the file format of microsoft
> outlook (.msg). but didn't get it.
> any idea, from where i can get that?

Nope!
-Barry

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