Email package and mailbox module

[Chirag Wazir]

Here's a bit of code to do this:

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import cStringIO, mailbox

# read the entire mailbox into memory
mailboxFile = concat(r'C:\Work\PocoMail\Mail\Backup.mbx', 'r')
mailboxString = cStringIO.StringIO(mailboxFile.read())
mailboxFile.close()

# process each mail
for mail in mailbox.PortableUnixMailbox(mailboxString):
    # show the headers
    for h in mail.headers:
        print h,
    # show the body
    mail.rewindbody()
    print mail.fp.read(),
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Chirag Wazir
http://chirag.freeshell.org


Chris Keyes <chrisk at nipltd.com> wrote:

> I'm currently trying to extract email messages from a mailbox file 
> ....
> I want both the body and the headers (basically to index the contents of 
> the message)....