How to handle attachments passed via Postfix

[Anthony Papillion]

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On 10/12/2015 3:58 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Anthony Papillion 
> <anthony at cajuntechie.org> wrote:
>> I'm writing a script that will have email with attachments passed
>> to it via Postfix.  Postfix is properly passing the email to the
>> script but I'm not quite sure how to get at the attachment.  What
>> I need to do is save the attachment out to the filesystem.
>> 
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> If I understand the situation correctly, you're getting a 
> MIME-formatted email, and want to decode it into a usable
> attachment - right?
> 
> Python includes a package for teasing apart RFC[2]822 format
> emails:
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.html
> 
> Check out the email.parser module, or the convenience function 
> email.message_from_string - you should be able to get at the
> different parts (including attachments) from there.
> 

Many thanks! Checking it out now. Sounds like exactly what I'm looking
for.

Anthony

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