Mimetools

[Steve Holden]

Dana Booth wrote:
> 
> Can someone show me a snippet, or suggest good documentation for using
> Mimetools decdoding a MIME encoded mail file.
> 
> I export the raw message from a mail spool, and my (Perl) script currently
> calls on Metamail to decode the file, using the -w switch to save the parts
> to file. I can be far more flexible with my own module, but am having
> difficulty blindly trying to use Mimetools.
> 
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> Dana Booth <dana at oz.net>
> Tacoma, Wa., USA
> 
> key at pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371

I found the mimecntl module much easier to handle than the others,
although initially a little confusing, and I should pass on my thanks
publicly to Daniel Berlin for sending me some sample code and
bringing mimecntl to my attention.  You can find the module at

   http://starship.python.net/crew/arcege/modules/

This is adapted from a program which processes several messages
from a mailbox, but it sounds like you don't need that level of
complexity.

regards
 Steve
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import mimecntl

msg = open("test","r")
f = mimecntl.MIME_document(msg)
print len(f.headers), "headers"
if f["content-type"].majortype() == "multipart":
     print "Multipart message with", len(f), "items"
else:
    print "Standard message of", len(f), "bytes"
print "============================================="
       
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