Problems extracting attachment from email

Max M maxm at mxm.dk
Fri Apr 8 03:14:37 EDT 2005


foten wrote:

> The problem I'm having is when I'm trying to extract the
> attachement using
>         f=open(Filename, "wb")
>         f.write(msg.get_payload(decode=1))
>         f.close()
> Not the whole message is decoded and stored!
> When only trying
>         f.write(msg.get_payload())
> I see that the last 255 bytes are missing.
> 
> How is this possible, I receive every last byte from stdin?


I don't think its a Python problem. Those methods are used in a lot of 
places. Your file is most likely not what it is supposed to be.


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