How to use new email package to read a mailbox?

[duder]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:16:28 +0000, Andrew Koenig wrote:

> ark> Suppose I have a file that represents a Unix mailbox.  What's the
> ark> right idiom to use to process each message in that file using the
> ark> new email package?
> 
> PS: What if my file might be the standard input and therefore cannot
> be assumed to be seekable?

is this what you are looking to do?

import email
theMail = sys.stdin.read()

msg = email.message_from_string(theMail)
theBody = msg.get_payload()
theSubject = msg.get("Subject")
theDate = msg.get("Date")