Retrieve Email Attachments
Lutz Horn
lho at gmx.de
Fri May 14 02:28:24 EDT 2004
> I need to access a POP or mayb IMAP based email account and extract
> attachments (probably images) from the email messages. How can this
> be done with the current two module libraries?
Use poplib or imaplib to get a message as a string.
>>> import poplib
>>> connection = poplib.POP3("servername")
>>> connection.user("username")
>>> connection.pass_("password")
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.
Lutz
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