From szybalski at gmail.com  Mon Jun 26 20:55:32 2006
From: szybalski at gmail.com (Lukasz Szybalski)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:55:32 -0500
Subject: [Email-SIG] How to extract attachment?
Message-ID: <804e5c70606261155l50270005ia18f6b955921f867@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
I received an email with attachment. The attachment can be binary or text.
How do I extract and save the message to database and attachment to some folder?

(f_name,f_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['from'])
(t_name,t_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['to'])
(r_name,r_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['reply_to'])
subject = m['subject']
 body=m.get_payload()

Since payload is multipart now. get_payload will be a list of parts.

1. How can i do:

for i in m.get_payload():
    save text to db (or extract text as string)
    save attachment to file with correct extension [.xml .exe .doc
.pdf] (How can i extract file so i can do f.write(file) )

2.How can i distinguish what is what?  Will get_payload() display text
first and then attachment?


Thanks
Lukasz

From msapiro at value.net  Mon Jun 26 21:30:48 2006
From: msapiro at value.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:30:48 -0700
Subject: [Email-SIG] How to extract attachment?
In-Reply-To: <804e5c70606261155l50270005ia18f6b955921f867@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <PC1740200606261230480937b5299d39@msapiro>

Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>I received an email with attachment. The attachment can be binary or text.
>How do I extract and save the message to database and attachment to some folder?
>
>(f_name,f_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['from'])
>(t_name,t_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['to'])
>(r_name,r_email)=email.Utils.parseaddr(m['reply_to'])
>subject = m['subject']
> body=m.get_payload()
>
>Since payload is multipart now. get_payload will be a list of parts.
>
>1. How can i do:
>
>for i in m.get_payload():
>    save text to db (or extract text as string)
>    save attachment to file with correct extension [.xml .exe .doc
>.pdf] (How can i extract file so i can do f.write(file) )
>
>2.How can i distinguish what is what?  Will get_payload() display text
>first and then attachment?


See <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Message.html> and
<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mimetypes.html>

import mimetypes
for i in m.walk():
    if i.is_multipart():
        continue
    if i.get_content_maintype() == 'text':
        pl = i.get_payload(decode=True)
        ...
        continue
    att_name = i.get_filename(None)
    if not att_name:
        ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(i.get_content_type())
        att_name = 'makeitup%s' % ext
    pl = i.get_payload(decode=True)
    ...

      
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