Parsing mime multipart/alternative emails for the message body

[Joao Prado Maia]

Hi,

I'm trying to parse mime based emails to get the message body, but I didn't
have much luck on trying to find a way. To give a little bit more detail,
what I'm trying to do is from a mime multipart email message get only the
message body. And by that I mean that I want only the message body, and not
the whole mime envelope for the other parts.

Using the modules mimify and rfc822 I can get the body, but it contains the
other parts as well. If the message was multipart/alternative with a part
text/plain and the other text/html, I would get both parts on the
rfc8222.Message().fp.read() way of doing this.

What I want is either just the text/plain body message on a
multipart/alternative or the text/html one if I don't have the choice.
Anyway, I looked into the new email module of Python 2.2 but I couldn't
figure out how to do this, if it is even possible.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Joao

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Joao Prado Maia
Software QA
Bioinformatics Dept.
Lexicon Genetics, Inc.


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