Another 2 to 3 mail encoding problem

[Peter Otten]

Chris Green wrote:

> To add a little to this, the problem is definitely when I receive a
> message with UTF8 (or at least non-ascci) characters in it.  My code
> is basically very simple, the main program reads an E-Mail message
> received from .forward on its standard input and makes it into an mbox
> message as follows:-
> 
>     msg = mailbox.mboxMessage(sys.stdin.read())
> 
> it then does various tests (but doesn't change msg at all) and at the
> end delivers the message to my local mbox with:-
> 
>     mbx.add(msg)
> 
> where mbx is an instance of mailbox.mbox.
> 
> 
> So, how is one supposed to handle this, should I encode the incoming
> message somewhere?
> 

This is what I'd try. Or just read the raw bytes:

data = sys.stdin.detach().read()
msg = mailbox.mboxMessage(data)