newbie question...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alexander Sendzimir <sendzimir at earthlink.net> wrote:
> According to David Beazley's invaluable book, mailbox.py
> is an undocumented module.

guess david missed this one:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-mailbox.html

...

here's an example (from the eff-bot guide):

##
## mailbox-example-1.py

import mailbox

mb = mailbox.UnixMailbox(open("/var/spool/mail/effbot"))

while 1:
    msg = mb.next()
    if not msg:
        break
    for k, v in msg.items():
        print k, "=", v
    body = msg.fp.read()
    print len(body), "bytes in body"

## sample output:
##
## subject = for he's a ...
## message-id = <199910150027.CAA03202 at spam.egg>
## received = (from fredrik at pythonware.com)
##  by spam.egg (8.8.7/8.8.5) id CAA03202
##  for effbot; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 02:27:36 +0200
## from = Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>
## date = Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:35:36 +0200
## to = effbot at spam.egg
## 1295 bytes in body

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