imap folder scanner

[Kun]

Marco Carvalho wrote:
> On 3/24/06, Sebastjan Trepca <trepca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> m.select('myfolder')
> 
> Some attention is required here to retrieve subfolders.
> Some imap servers like Cyrus and Courier uses "INBOX.subfolder" to
> access subfolders.
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so i have used the following code and have successfully saved a list of 
senders as a string.  however, the string has much more information than 
just the email address and i am wondering what is the best way to parse 
the email address out of the entire string.

sample string:
 >>> print status, senders
OK [('460 (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM)] {46}', 'From: Friend 
<anon at anon.com>\r\n\r\n'), ')', ('462 (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM)] {37}', 
'From: Kun <neurogasm at gmail.com>\r\n\r\n'), ')']

how do i just get the two email addresses out of there?

my code is:

from imaplib import *
import getpass
m = IMAP4("xxxxxxxx")
m.login('xxxxxx', 'xxxxxxx')
m.select('Inbox')
status, data = m.search(None,'(SUBJECT "BIKES")')
assert status=='OK', "Error. Message: %s"%data
data = data[0] #you get your results in a list and search returns only 
one result
assert data,"No results"
#cool, we have results, but IMAP's search command only returns IDs so we 
have to fetch
#msgs now
status,senders = m.fetch(data.replace(' ',','),'(BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS 
(FROM)])')
assert status=='OK', "Error. Message: %s"%data
print senders