Retrieve Email Attachments

Fazer faizan at jaredweb.com
Fri May 14 21:29:46 EDT 2004


Thanks a lot for your guide! 

Lutz Horn <lho at gmx.de> wrote in message news:<2gj7b8F3fd4cU2 at uni-berlin.de>...
> Lutz Horn wrote:
> > Use poplib or imaplib to get a message as a string.
> > 
> >  >>> import poplib
> >  >>> connection = poplib.POP3("servername")
> >  >>> connection.user("username")
> >  >>> connection.pass_("password")
> 
> forgot:
> 
>  >>> msg_as_string = connection.get(number_of_message_on_server)
>  
> > Then use the email module (new in 2.2) to parse this string into an 
> > instance of email.Messsage using
> > 
> >  >>> import email
> >  >>> msg = email.message_from_string(msg_as_string)
> > 
> > Use the methods of the resulting email.Message instance to get the 
> > contents of the email.



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